Dry hopping a kit

[matth]

Hello, whilst getting irritated at my lack of time to go AG, despite having built most of my kit now, i have decided on trying a kit and then dry hopping it to play with aroma hops.

I have bought a cheapie Tom Caxtons yorkshire bitter kit, and got 1kg of beer kit enhancer, and after work am popping by leyland home brew to pick up a couple of bags of hops.

My idea is to brew the kit and then split it for secondary, and experiment with different hops in each. Iam quite taken by amarillo so that will have to be one, but does anyone else have a suggestion on another hop that would be good on its own, but also go well with amarillo?

Also should i brew less that the 40 pints stated - will it be better if i brew 32 or something?

Thanks
Matt

 

[phettebs]

Cascade and Amarillo go quite well and Cascade have an amazing aroma.

Centennial are also nice as are Simcoe. I have used all of those as dry hops in the secondary/keg before.

 

[matth]

thanks may have a look at cascade or centinel - i have read about simcoe sometimes coming out like cat pee - which i don't really want, so may avoid that.

Thanks for the suggestions, i'll see what they have.

 

[Popspicker]

Hey Matth
looks like you're a neighbour mate..
maybe, when I get better, one day we can have a taste swap ??

 

[matth]

I'd be up for that, hoping to get all grain soon, but the lack of time prohibits at the moment. Starting dry hopping a kit - mainly just to get some bottles full for christmas, but also play with dry hopping. tested my 15 ltr kettle at the weekend and it worked with a good rolling boil and didn't kill me - which is a bonus! so may soon have a go at a couple of extracts, but come new year i want to be all grain.