Just scored 8oz's of Citra hops here in PDX.

Anxious to put these to use.

Anyone have luck with them?

I wasn't overly impressed with SN Torpedo.

where in pdx did you score them ..... i really wanna try these

Steinfarts

Try brewbrothers, they have them. Freshops prices without the shipping.

Eric - have you been over to the brewbrothers store?

Yeah, was there Wednesday a couple of sacks of grain. Have you been over?

No the last time I bought from them I went to the dudes house. Hillsboro is a wayz out there for me...however I want to get over there.

It's definitely a haul if you're in the city. I'm in Npdx but I work out that way. The first few times I went it was the house, but now they're in a little warehouse space. Every time I go they have more stuff, great guys too.

Ya I need to go check that out...thanks for the heads up.

Any updates with using Citra hops? I used some in lieu of cascade in Denny's Belgian IPA, which is just about ready for dry hopping. I am considering using some for dry hopping as well, if any of you fine folks has any good info on dry hopping with citra.

I used some blended with amarillo in a standard American pale ale. Although the beer is still young, it tastes pretty sharp. A friend of mine described the flavor as oniony and black pepper, which I would have to agree with. There is also a general citrus note. Not my favorite hop, but interesting. I think it would be better in an IPA. I had originally planned to drop hop half the batch with citra and half with amarillo, but I decided to skip the dry hops altogether.

So I made a big IPA....Vitamin C.... Citra, Chinook, Columbus, Cent, and Cascade. I used Citra in the 60 and 0 adds(along with the other C hops).

I can definitly state that the beer is sharp. But not necessarily in a good way. Now this could also be due to the others hops and how they work together etc...

I have another beer which is based on the AHA SNPA recipe where I used Citra for bittering and Cascade to finish. So hopefully that should be a better judge of the hop.

Widmer had a beer now and then called X-114 IPA.

This is the description on the website: "X-114 IPA: X-114 refers to an experimental hop that has yet to hit the market. Peppery and spicy aroma and flavor."

Rumor has it that it's bittered with their alchemy blend, then finished with citra. If you can get by the gasthaus it's on tap now.

Thanks for the heads up. Haven't tried the X-114 IPA, but on the subject of Widmer, their new W'10 Black IPA is awesome!

"It's definitely a haul if you're in the city. I'm in Npdx but I work out that way."

Portlandians crack me up!! I worked in Portland and lived in Carlton for 6 years, try that!
Here in CA it's not a commute if it's less than an hour.

See that's the whole deal man...I grew up in the Bay Area and moved here to get away from that joke.

I had a 10-15 mile commute in the South Bay that sometimes would take 1-2 hours....always at least 45 minutes. MTB came in handy used to ride to work.

I heard from two established Belgian brewers (at two different events in two different countries) that they're great as a finishing hop in Trappist style beers. Anyone here try this, or sampled the results of this?

I made a pale ale exclusively with citra as a test run to see how they were. I thought it turned out really good. Nice citrusy flavor... none of that 'spicy' that some folks are mentioning.

only experience has been with SN Torpedo and wasn't that impressed, seemed like a harsh piney flavor to that beer.

Just recently I tapped my citra dry hopped IPA. Amazingly citrusy and tropical fruity. I'm not sure what the "spicy" or "peppery" is that people are getting but I only dry hopped with it.

They went well with Summit in a Pale Ale I made.

I haven't brewed with these YET, but had a DIPA with only Citra hop additions and it was great. Strong, sweet aroma of tropical fruit with the same flavor. Definitely different and definitely good!

My Belgian Pale Ale that was bittered with Perle and finished with Citra turned out really nice. Eight gallon batch got 1.5 oz of Perle and 1 oz of Citra at 15 minutes before the end. OG 1.054 FG 1.007 (I brew with Poland Spring water). 62 F fermentation with Ardennes (neutral to slightly phenolic flavor contribution) Malt bill: 11.5 lbs Dingeman Pale malt, 2 lbs of Canada Maltings Munich.

As a finish hop, Citra supposedly throws tropical fruit flavors. This is what happened.

Hopping is slightly more pronounced (compared to finishing with 1.5 oz Saaz). Pronounced mango and papaya flavors. It's tasting more like a APA than a Belgian PA. Very tasty. Was a hit at the brew club meeting. SHMBO has been really hitting the kegerator since this one went on. I'll be making this again.

My all citra IPA was definitely tropical fruit and citrus, very nice crowd favorite.

AZ, The spouse is a serious foodie and likes wine more than beer. Every now and then she really falls for one of my beers and stops drinking wine for a couple of weeks. When this happens I know I made a nice batch.

This recipe was suggested to us by a Belgian brewer we met during Beer Week in Philly last June on a really hot day in a very hot bar. The fellow is a big fan of Citra and makes some commercial beer with it back in Flanders. He suggested a recipe for a Belgian lawn mower beer--low OG, and with the sweet-bitter finish of a West Coast beer.

I made this two ways: 4 gallons fermented with Ardennes, and 4 with Wyeast Belgian Canadian yeast. The Ardennes version is really short of Belgian personality, I'm hoping that the other cornie is a little more fruity and the esters and tropical flavors hang well together.

It was OG 1.054 FG 1.008. I put in a little sugar just to make sure it finished, next time no sugar at all.

Belgian Canadian is one of my fav. belgian yeast because its so fruity and nice and everyone prefers that yeast over most the other belgain yeast (at my place anyway). I'd bet you're going to get that big fruity estery tropical flavor. Sounds good.