Favourite Hop Combo's (flavour)

[Brewer_010]

I'm beginning to experiment with different hop varieties in my extract beers and I'm interested in what other combinations people use.

So what's your favourite combinations, in which beer style?

I recently made a brew with southern cross and super alpha flavour and aroma additions, in an english-style bitter, that has come out slightly spicy with a hint of lemon. Quite nice really (not unlike a strong fuggles flavour)

Cheers

 

[Kingy]

my last extract brew i did before venturing into biab was the recipe below and it turned out great and id probably do it again. Im actually buying the ingredients and givng to a mate for his bday and brew it with him to show him how to step up from kits to extract.

1.5 liquid amber malt
1.5 liquid pale malt
specialty grain flavour pack (ale and bitter) that contained 12 grams of ekg hops

i steep the flavour pack for 3o mins , then added the runnings along with the pale malt and boiled for an hour with about 6 litres of water it think (it might have been 9 litres)

adding
35gms amirillo at 60
25gms cascade at 30
amber malt at about 12mins
25 gms cascade at 5

cheers kingy

allways been a fan of amirillo but the cascade goes extremely well with it.

 

[Barry]

Good Day
Just a broad starting point would be a mix of English hops for bitters etc, mix of german nobles for German beers, Cascade and amarillo for APA's etc.
However you can mix several that you like and make a Brewer_010 pale ale. :beer:

 

[discoloop]

a mix of English hops for bitters etc, mix of german nobles

I love a belgian-style Saaz/Fuggle combo...

Pride of Ringwood with a subtle hint of Amarillo is a real favourite of mine (but it has to be just a hint otherwise the Amarillo will overpower.)

 

[bconnery]

I'm beginning to experiment with different hop varieties in my extract beers and I'm interested in what other combinations people use.

So what's your favourite combinations, in which beer style?

I recently made a brew with southern cross and super alpha flavour and aroma additions, in an english-style bitter, that has come out slightly spicy with a hint of lemon. Quite nice really (not unlike a strong fuggles flavour)

Cheers

First Gold and Bramling Cross in an english ale.

First Gold and anything in an english ale actually.

 

[reVoxAHB]

Cascade and Saaz.

Pales, APA's, IPA's, etc. Good all-rounder combo for me.

 

[tangent]

saaz and tetts
cascade and amarillo

 

[blackbock]

Add to that Chinook and Cascade.. in APAs, AIPAs
Hallertau and Tetts - for lagers
Hersbrucker and itself!

 

[tangent]

i love hersbrucker
i'm so pissed it won't flower here
that'd have to be heaven when the hops are fresh off the bine

 

[bindi]

saaz and tetts
cascade and amarillo

And Saaz and Hallertauer Hersbrucker guess which style [hint, check below].
Northern Brewer and any good aroma hop.

Edit: spelling

 

[goatherder]

Cascade and Amarillo mixed 2:1 for APAs works really well for me.

 

[Screwtop]

Nugget and Cluster
Cascade and NS
Perle and Magnum
Northern Brewer and Most Aroma hops

 

[sluggerdog]

Classic Saaz & Halleratu

 

[Mr Bond]

Hallertau(bitter/flava 10 min) Cascade/centenial(aroma 5min,f/out)

Top combo,IMHO

 

[Kai]

Love mixing english with nobles for belgians.

Simcoe and Cascade, Simcoe and Amarillo. Glacier and Goldings.

 

[pb unleaded]

all of the above

 

[shmick]

Challenger and EKG for English Ales. Good in ESB's and a little more earthy than Fuggles/EKG combo I save for milds to get a cleaner finish.

Perle and Tettnanger or Hallertauer or Saaz for lagers. (Tett Dortmunder mmmm - say no more)

POR (bittering only) and Northern Brewer for Aussie strong Ales
Sounds weird but one of my past fav's was a JS Strong Ale clone and this combo gave a subdued classic oz flavour with a clean citrus finish I was after. Worked very well with the biscuit malt flavours from the crystal wheat.

 

[jayse]

northern brewer I find goes with nearly everything in one way or another.
As some people have said amarillo goes with cascade, add simcoe to that and of course add any other american C hops there aswell, northern brewer fits in that mix nicely I think.

Mixing german with english or english with american or german with american i find a bit silly but there are exceptions with american hops breed from and similiar to the english and german origins which do work.

Pretty much any english with english I find great but when it comes to german styles i usually stick to a single hop.