philm63
Grandmaster Brewer
Looking for some reassurance here - the guy at my LHBS suggested WLP008 for my black IPA.
I told him I was going for some tropical fruit notes (hopping with Amarillo and Citra) and was looking at the English strains when he told me about his APAs in which he uses 008. Reading up on this strain, I can see it is purported to "mute hop bitterness" and that concerns me a bit, seeing as this is an IPA I'm brewing.
My calculated BU/GU stands at 1.377 right now, and I was planning on fermenting at around 68F.
If you've used this strain for hop-forward styles, I'd appreciate your input.
I told him I was going for some tropical fruit notes (hopping with Amarillo and Citra) and was looking at the English strains when he told me about his APAs in which he uses 008. Reading up on this strain, I can see it is purported to "mute hop bitterness" and that concerns me a bit, seeing as this is an IPA I'm brewing.
My calculated BU/GU stands at 1.377 right now, and I was planning on fermenting at around 68F.
If you've used this strain for hop-forward styles, I'd appreciate your input.