If you could only have five hop varieties....

[knthrak1982]

Due to the better half's view that freezer space priority should go to other items, I tend to only have five varieties of hop at hand at any one time, only buying another pack when one runs out. This got me thinking, if you could only have five varieties of hop, which five would you choose? Base your answer on general availability from your LHBS and variety of beers to produce.

While this isn't my preference, the ones I have at the moment, due to what recent recipes have demanded, are:

Cascade
Challenger
First Gold
Fuggles
Kent Goldings

Thoughts?

 

[graysalchemy]

Mine are obviously specific to the brews I brew, but mine would be

Brambling Cross for stout
EKG
Challenger
Cascade
willamette.

 

[knthrak1982]

Interesting we match on three of them. I've never used Brambling Cross.

 

[graysalchemy]

Great for bittering in a stout

 

[RobWalker]

hahah, interesting topic!

Saaz (every lager/belgian/wheat under the sun and a great single hop.)
Cascade
Goldings
Citra

I'm going to reserve a space for a special hop that I havn't discovered yet, but those 4 arn't likely to change any time soon :

 

[markmark]

Chinook
Amarillo
EKG
Fuggles
Nelson Sauvin

 

[zgoda]

Sybilla
Galaxy
Iunga
Bramling or Brewers Gold
Amarillo or Centennial

and I can brew until end of times.

Sybilla is very versatile aroma hop related to Lubelski, Saaz and Slovenian varieties. Iunga is clean bittering hop. I can't decide for Bramling or BG, I love them both, same for Centennial and Amarillo.

 

[mattrickl06]

Hallertau Hersbrucker
Saaz
Simcoe
EKG
Fuggles

Then again there are soooo many still that i have not experimented with so this list will probably change by the week going forward

 

[PD]

I'd have Target for Stout
Fuggles
EKG these combine well in my mind in lots of brews
Challenger which I'm begining to like more and more.
I do like to have some Bobek in stock
and the last, Cascade

as you can probably tell I am not an overtly Hoppy brewer

 

[evanvine]

Goldings
Goldings
Goldings
Goldings
Goldings

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Brewers gold
Goldings
Challenger
Cascade
Nelson

 

[knthrak1982]

Thanks for some interesting replies, people.

EKG definitely coming across as a popular one.

 

[Aleman]

Nelson Sauvin
Saaz
Styrian Goldings
Goldings
Tough choice on the other one

. . . . I just bought a dedicated hop freezer . . . then I can have what I want :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[BIGJIM72]

EKG
Challenger
Fuggles
Galaxy
Cascade

 

[Pakman]

Fuggles
Golding
Cascade
Perle
Citra

Pale Ale selection

 

[dennisking]

EKG
Challenger
Galaxy
Willamette
Styrian Goldings

With Nelson Sauvin as first reserve.

 

[PD]

I have a dedicated freezer for hops like Aleman ( obviously not as many hop varieties as him ) but I would like to know out of the 10 or so different varieties I have, why does my next brew need a hop I aint got !

 

[graysalchemy]

I am the same and I have a large freezer full of hops, yeast and spare wort (for starters)

 

[dennisking]

Just showed my wife Tony's photo and said this is what a freezer should look like, she wasn't impressed.

 

[Aleman]

Just showed my wife Tony's photo and said this is what a freezer should look like, she wasn't impressed.

Nah . . . Now this is a hop freezer