Spork
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Hey brewers.
Today I picked my first home grown hops. I have 328g of delicious looking Perle hops - but have never used this variety before.
I believe thay are often used in lagers and pils, but I don't intend to brew a lager, and aren't a big fan of pils (although I have just ordered a sack of pils malt in a BB...
Most of my brews use an ale mat as the base, and varying amounts of wheat malt, munich1 malt and caramalt. Sort of loosely based on the DSGA grain bill. I also have a small amount of crystal 80 to use up. I usually add american hops and ferment with american ale yeast. I did one batch that was supposed to be an ESB. Same grain bill, UK goldings hops, and SA-05 yeast. That turned out pretty tasty! I also enjoy most belgians. Could I make a decent belgian beer with the grains I have, and maybe some candi sugar or DME if I can't get the sugar, the Perle and a belgian yeast?
I'd like to use the hops as fresh as possible, so keen to brew tomorrow. Happy to use the whole lot in one beer. Just really not sure where to begin...
Looking forward to some suggestions / advice.
Cheers all.
Today I picked my first home grown hops. I have 328g of delicious looking Perle hops - but have never used this variety before.
I believe thay are often used in lagers and pils, but I don't intend to brew a lager, and aren't a big fan of pils (although I have just ordered a sack of pils malt in a BB...
Most of my brews use an ale mat as the base, and varying amounts of wheat malt, munich1 malt and caramalt. Sort of loosely based on the DSGA grain bill. I also have a small amount of crystal 80 to use up. I usually add american hops and ferment with american ale yeast. I did one batch that was supposed to be an ESB. Same grain bill, UK goldings hops, and SA-05 yeast. That turned out pretty tasty! I also enjoy most belgians. Could I make a decent belgian beer with the grains I have, and maybe some candi sugar or DME if I can't get the sugar, the Perle and a belgian yeast?
I'd like to use the hops as fresh as possible, so keen to brew tomorrow. Happy to use the whole lot in one beer. Just really not sure where to begin...
Looking forward to some suggestions / advice.
Cheers all.