Hops Type For Honey Ale

[tlbeer]

Hi all, I have currently done my first all grain beer and am looking at doing a honey ale for my second and I am wanting some suggestions as to what hops I should use. I currently have some spare Moteuka and Cascade from my first brew which was the LCBA clone. I have the following grains and honey which I would like to use and will ferment with S05 with a volume of 20L.


1kg Pilsener malt

1kg Vienna malt

2kg Caramalt

1kg Local Wild Honey


Any suggestions?


Cheers.

 

[MaltyHops]

BTW, there have been discussion that honey doesn't need to be pasteurised
for brewing but have a look at this post: Beez Kneez Clone #12

T.

 

[pk.sax]

tl...

that is my next brew too. Basically make the LCBA clone to recipe and draw off 3-4 litres of actively fermenting beer and add honey to it in a demijohn. I don't intend to modify the hopping really.

 

[Nick JD]

BTW, there have been discussion that honey doesn't need to be pasteurised
for brewing but have a look at this post: Beez Kneez Clone #12

T.

I'd go for something "floral" to highlight the perfumy nature of the honey. I'd also mash high with all that adjunct - like 69C. And 2kg caramalt? Is that a typo?

 

[tlbeer]

I'd go for something "floral" to highlight the perfumy nature of the honey. I'd also mash high with all that adjunct - like 69C. And 2kg caramalt? Is that a typo?

Retract that 2 kg caramalt - should be 1kg wheat , 1 kg ale malt - caramalt was written on the vac seal bag by the LHBS. (hope they gave me the right bag!) , i am looking to brew something similar to beez neez but am open to suggestions....

 

[Nick JD]

I've never tried beez neez (possibly the name put me off because I don't spray Nick JDzzz on the elderly's fences in a vain attempt to place myself in a world that says I am too young to own it) but is it an American Wheat beer? Or a German, or a Belgian?

The last two are all about their yeast. If it's American wheat then US05 is perfect. The other, not so much.

Wheat beers are not heavily hop driven - so any hops will do.

 

[pk.sax]

Nick!!!!

I think it's Matilda bay. Aussie. And it's crap. Insipid. Bland. Shameful.

Anything OP will brew will be tons better.