Single Hop Thread

[Fatgodzilla]

It was only last week wasn't it that you'all discussed single hop beers. Can't find it ! Can someone who was in it put a link for a poor old fat man to find it please ?


Found these two recipes on Jim's site in England. They look just too damn simple, don't they? Reckon I might give them ago sometime.

Here's the info for Briars Best which won the Bitter category at the CBA's Sutton festival in Nov '07.

BRIARS BEST

30 litres OG 1.052 ABV 5.1% 27 units of bitterness

MARIS OTTER PALE MALT 5370 gms
CRYSTAL MALT 630 gms

HOPS Boil time 90 minutes
CHALLENGER 50 gms

25 gms of challenger added in the last 15 minutes

Safale S-04

NB. Check your efficiency, I hit 84% for this recipe. At 70% you should get a brew that is 4%ABV.
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YELLOWBELLY BREWERY

Entered this into our clubs British Beer Fest ( www.SODZ.org ) and won first place in 8a Ordinary Bitter. Scored 40.5

Styrian Stunner
23 L
4.76 Kg Maris Otter 2-Row
51 Grams of Styrian Golding alpha 3.5 at 90 minutes
24 Grams of Styrian Golding alpha 3.5 at 15 minutes
11 Grams of Stryian Golding alpha 3.5 at 7 minutes
Irish Moss at 15 minutes

Yeast
2nd Generation of Wyeast 1469 Timothy Taylor

Ender

 

[n00ch]

This the one you're after?

 

[Fatgodzilla]

This the one you're after?

Yep, that's the one, plus the link to the older thread too. Thanks n00ch.

I raised this cos I reckon something as simple as the two recipes above should be the first AGs someone new to the game should make (Speaking from personal experience here !! "should have kept AG 1 simple" he says after the event).

That said, one malt one hop. Anyone got anything bad to say about it ? Will it be too dull, too gutless a flavour ?

 

[captian black beer]

One Malt one Hop is fine (well dry extract and 1 hop), made a Quick and dirty batch for a test procedure and it worked out good. The girlfriend loved it. Was Dry malt extract and Saaz, done in a lager, so a simple Pils style I guess.

I'm sure its possible to do many a good one hop one malt beers. Although a stout or a porter might be a wee challenge using that idea.

 

[pb unleaded]

Here is another thread on simple beers I started couple of years ago.
arthur