Smash Hops Selection.

[PaulRob]

I made an uberbrew cc7 clone recently, chinook, citra and Idaho 7 for flavor and aroma including dry hopping, the Idaho 7 really came through, orange and tangerine, superb flavor.

Thanks loads to try, may just need to buy a selection.

 

[PaulRob]

What hops are in your favorite beer?

Not sure I really have a favourite beer, when out in pub I will try something new or guest ales, and when buying for home, I will see what looks nice that is on offer. Will need to start looking at what hops are in beers that I like. Cheers.

 

[GotOneBrewin]

What sort of beers do you drink and what IBUs are you after? I still do 1 gallon batches with new hops, I don't think you are going to get 3x 5L brews out of 50g. A high alpha US hop might cut it, 50g of Centennial would give you about 32IBUs per brew, but even though I'm not a member of hopheads anonymous yet you'd want about 40IBU and more late hopping with the US to get a good taste. I would buy 50g of 3 different hops and every 4th brew use up the remainder. First Gold, Perle and Amarillo would be my three.

 

[PaulRob]

What sort of beers do you drink and what IBUs are you after? I still do 1 gallon batches with new hops, I don't think you are going to get 3x 5L brews out of 50g. A high alpha US hop might cut it, 50g of Centennial would give you about 32IBUs per brew, but even though I'm not a member of hopheads anonymous yet you'd want about 40IBU and more late hopping with the US to get a good taste. I would buy 50g of 3 different hops and every 4th brew use up the remainder. First Gold, Perle and Amarillo would be my three.

Thanks, I'm not sure I have a type, I like hoppy beers but also like other styles from Belgians to lagers, maybe need to have to rethink what I'm doing. I do have some Perle left over, and another hop that I will need to ask store details on.

 

[Brew_DD2]

Cashmere is ace if you can get your hands on it. Also, although loads have said it already, Citra is magnificent. Can express itself completely differently depending on how much you use and where you use it in the brewing process.

 

[cushyno]

An alternative for single hop is to use Saaz. A great noble hop with distinctive flavour.

If you want the hops to shine, keep it simple with the yeast, US-05 or Nottingham and ferment on the cool side - 17degC

 

[Keruso]

What hops are in your favorite beer?

crikey that’s a difficult question, my favorite beer is westvleteren 12, no idea what hops they use.. in homebrew I’m leaning towards centennial, nelson sauvin, equanot, vic secret, azacca, idaho, simcoe, citra, columbus and galaxy (when it was available) but not at the same time obviously , I tend to go for 3 hop combinations, and IPAs are my go to brew

 

[Nicks90]

Depends what beer you like drinking.
If it's an IPA then I'd go with Amarillo.
Golden/summer ale and you can't go wrong with first gold or progress
Bitter, challenger all the way! Bloody love that stuff.
Lager, saaz or mandarina Bavaria

But that's the fun of a smash, you get to try lots of stuff out.

One thing I would say is to do a pretend smash, get a really neutral bittering hop that's cheap as chips and use that at 60min and save your expensive flavour hops for just that!
I keep meaning to do a full 20l biab and use magnum or target to bitter to 25ibu and then put it in to 5 demijohns whilst still at 80c and drop a sock of different hops in to each overnight (no chill) as an aroma addition for a big range of smash beers.