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I`m planning to do a brew tomorrow..a pale ale and was wondering if anyone has any suggestion for hops I might use. I have a few bags of hops here..Amarillo, WGV, goldings and fuggles. I normally use fuggles and goldings in a pale ale but fancy trying something different. I`m even toying with the idea of adding crushed coriander seeds in the boil ( not my idea, came across it in a recipe ). Any suggestions woul be gratefully recieved.
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how many of each hop do you have? how strong is ur beer going to be and how much of it are you planning on making?
I love Amarillo for late and particularly dry hop additions
I`ve got 100g goldings, 80g amarillo and about 40g of fuggles and wgv. I`m aiming for around 5 to 5.5% and and brew length 32 ltrs. I was up at natures way yesterday to get some crystal malt and had a look at the hops and they weren`t stocking many hops...goldings, wgv and hallertau that was about it, mind you, they never do do a big variety of hops.
I`m a big lover of amarillo myself.
If I had that choice, I'd go for a single hop Amarillo ale every time.
I think i`m going to go the amarillo route here`s the recipe, any suggestions welcome : 6kg pale ale malt, 500g medium crystal...mash 1hr. Boil 1 hr..50g amarillo 60 mins...40g fuggles 15 mins from end, 1 1/2 tspn irish moss 15 min from end. safale 05
I thought about adding the fuggles, basically to use them up as i`ve had them in freezer for a while. But what does ya think?
Would you not use the fuggles as bittering and Amarillo as flavour/aroma?
Yeah I could do, nothing is written in stone. The A/a for the amarillo is 10.9%, don`t know the a/a for the fuggles as it was packaged by/for Youngs and for whatever reason they don`t give the a/a on their bags.
somewhere in between these 2; 3.5 - 5.5%
You could also do a 5min from end hop addition and a 0min from end addition to get extra aroma in!