IPAish brew

[jonewer]

Morning chaps,

Just mashing 5kg of Marris Otter with 300g of light crystal for a 23l brew. Planning on using S33 yeast.

I need some help with the hop schedule as I dont know where I'm going with this.....

I have

Warrior
Cascade
Green Bullet
Fuggles
Goldings
Nelson Sauvin
Aurora
Pacific Gem (50g only)
Chinook
Columbus

I'd probably like to use Warrior as primary bittering.

Thanks!

 

[markp]

I've never tried Warrior, so if you decide to go down that route please let us know how the taste is.

From what you have listed there, I would personally chose chinook to bitter and then use cascade and/or nelson sauvin for flavour/aroma......but I'm in to those at the mosment.
There are a few nice combos you could go for from what you have there :)

Hope you have a good brew :thumb:

 

[jonewer]

Cheers,

Decided to go for a Warrior/Chinook 60/40g combo to bitter and use cascade for flavour and aroma. Should be a bitter one! :twisted:

Strange thing is the colour. I used light crystal but its definitely an amber wort...... :wha:

 

[jonewer]

So its ended up as

60g Warrior for 90mins
40g Chinook for 90mins
50g Cascade for 30mins
50g Cascade for 15mins

Protofloc in, cooler in, last few mins of the boil!

 

[jonewer]

All done. S33 dry pitched and washing up done.

One possible boo-boo.... during the boil I periodically skimmed off the scum from the top thinking it was just trub. Looking at the yellow-green stains on the ladle I had used, I think this might have been hop resin also! Which means I was pouring my lovely hops down the drain and feeling very pleased with myself about it.

 

[jonewer]

This is chugging away like a trojan! OG was somewhere around the 1.050 mark.

Better get that other keg cleaned out soonish!