Sour ale hop suggestions

[SanPancho]

happy accident beer here- basically a kettle sour but with much more interesting sour character from non lacto bugs. Then threw some conan in there, kept cool around 64 looking for stone fruits.

Now the question - what kind of hops? little bit of noble type for a background note, or go for the usual suspects like whats in the freezer- Simcoe, citra, hal blanc, topaz, azzaca, eukanot, comet, etc

 

[SanPancho]

Forgot- got a buttload of el dorado too. Maybe thats the ticket.

 

[EaseTN]

I like cascade with kettle sour, kind of a sour grapefruity thing goin on with minimal dankness.

 

[SanPancho]

Yeah, that’s kind of where I was going with the noble idea- just a little bit of generic “hop” flavor. Cascade works too.

 

[SanPancho]

But I got a ton of el dorado now that I look again. Might just need to go that route

 

[couchsending]

What’s the ph of the beer now?

Dry hopping a beer with low pH will result in something rather different than a beer with a more normal pH. Often times the character you get won’t be that great.

 

[SanPancho]

Different, yes. But can still be present and prominent, or at least substantial. Need to check again but was at 3.3ish last i checked at KO. Thats pretty sour, so not unreasonable to think a heavy dose of hops might buffer the acid a bit as well as bring another layer into play. Im circling back towards el dorado as sour cherry seems like it could work well (and i have a ton), but would like one more variety to help round out. Lemondrop is a possibility, but im not sure how much i have on hand.