Hops Question

[Rats]

What are your preferred type of hops?

[Shane Phelan]

I like the American varieties.

[Bubbles]

American, without a doubt. The more the better.

And I prefer the "old-fashioned" American varieties, rather than the hipster (and ridiculously expensive) varieties. You can't go wrong with Cascade, Chinook, Centennial, Columbus. Though I'm also rather fond of Citra, I have to say.

[Padraic]

American, without a doubt. The more the better.

And I prefer the "old-fashioned" American varieties, rather than the hipster (and ridiculously expensive) varieties. You can't go wrong with Cascade, Chinook, Centennial, Columbus. Though I'm also rather fond of Citra, I have to say.

The C hops are definitely my favourites, but I have a soft spot for Nelson Sauvin and Bramling Cross.

[Bubbles]

American, without a doubt. The more the better.

And I prefer the "old-fashioned" American varieties, rather than the hipster (and ridiculously expensive) varieties. You can't go wrong with Cascade, Chinook, Centennial, Columbus. Though I'm also rather fond of Citra, I have to say.

The C hops are definitely my favourites, but I have a soft spot for Nelson Sauvin and Bramling Cross.

I think the Brewdog beers that use Nelson are fantastic, but I didn't get good results with the beers I used them in (it was my very early days and I used them in a couple of kit hacks - badly). Definitely want to experiment with them more. Same goes for the Bramling X - the two beers I've had them in (Tube's medal winner and Rossa's session pale ale) were superb. I love that blackcurrant flavour they give.

Amarillo is a great hop, but I think it has to be paired sensitively. For my palate at least... It's so fruity that I like to pair it with something more dank and resiny, like Columbus or Chinook. Then the two hop varieties really spark off each other.

[Kieran the Human]

Summit and Northern Brewer are my favorite multi-purpose hops - Summit in pale ales and ipas, northern brewer in english ales - I love Centennial and Cascade too but I'm more into malty beers with low hop character

[LordEoin]

I love my fuggles, but SWMBO says it smells like 'old man fart'...

[Ciderhead]

How does she know?

[irish_goat]

Have a soft spot for cascade because it was the first hop I was aware of after having a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and googling it.

Citra and mosaic are 2 favourites at the minute though.

[Jacob]

Nelson, Cascade, Amarillo. That's my top 3

[Hop Bomb]

For IPAs im with Simcoe, Citra, Mosaic, Warrior, & the darker beers with Willamette, Fuggles, Northern Brewer, Goldings. I havent touched the noble hops yet so Im sure thats a whole other world for me to explore in the future.

[Tom]

What are your preferred type of hops?

Leaf hops over pellets any day.

[Taf]

Fruity ones, regardless where they are from, but a big fan of the American C's and various ones from NZ. 

[Ciderhead]

What are your preferred type of hops?

Leaf hops over pellets any day.

don't like compacted floor sweepings myself either :