Apa Recipe Using Willamette

[milob40]

i have 1/2 a kilo of willamette so i want to make an apa, not a big beer just around 4.5%
just need help with the editions to get the right balance.
should i just use magnum for bittering or use the willamette all the way through?
i was thinking around 35 -40 ibu with editions at 60 min , 20 min and 10 min as i've heard it can get grassy with 0 min editions.
will be using ale malt with some wheat and small caramunich edition mostly.

 

[MarkBastard]

I've used this hop across the full range of hopping times and never had any issues. I even dry hop with it.

I would go with 60, 20, 5 and dry hop at 1g per litre.

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

Slightly OT, but I made a mid-strength 3.5% English Pale Ale with it as the sole hop (60/20 additions), using TF FM Perle Malt and Windsor Yeast.

Mashed higher (around 68 degrees) and the windsor is a low attenuator, so the abv was lower, but a great beer nonetheless - and something to serve to megaswill quaffing mates.

I had 1/2 a kg (now less) in the freezer and it's a good way to use it.

APA - I've got a ton of Cascade, a fairly amount of galaxy and citra, so willamette would be lost, I think, in it, but maybe in conjunction with a fruity hop to mellow out the fruit punch and have a more balanced hoppiness - between the slightly spicy nature of willamette and the fruity nature of an american hop, you'd make a good balanced APA.

And it's fantastically smooth as a 60 minute bittering hop.

Goomba

 

[milob40]

thanks guys, so now i'm thinkin i might use the willamette for 60 and 20 min ed. and maybe 10g of cascade at 5 min to finish off, yeah?
i'm open for suggestions although i want to try and keep with the apa theme.

 

[Nick JD]

I find Willamette goes well with POR and Saaz. Sounds like a weird combo, but they all have that earthy-spicy thing goin' on.

 

[MarkBastard]

thanks guys, so now i'm thinkin i might use the willamette for 60 and 20 min ed. and maybe 10g of cascade at 5 min to finish off, yeah?
i'm open for suggestions although i want to try and keep with the apa theme.

Why not keep it all willamette? Under rated hop IMO and if you give it a go this one time you'll know exactly what it's like. If you use cascade it's going to just taste mostly like cascade.

 

[milob40]

Why not keep it all willamette? Under rated hop IMO and if you give it a go this one time you'll know exactly what it's like. If you use cascade it's going to just taste mostly like cascade.

point taken, i shall go all willamette, i would be more adventurous if i could buy my grain in bulk.
would i be better moving the 5 min to flameout?

 

[MarkBastard]

Depends if you're chilling or not.