Suggest a recipe with crystal hops?

[Truman42]

Howdy gents,

I have a **** load of crystal hops I want to use up and am looking for recipe sugestions.

Malt on hand is..

Ale
MO
Crystal med and dark
caramalt
carafa special 3
roast barkey
chocolate
black patent.

Or.....

I considered doing the Rogue Brutal Imperial IPA. From what Ive read the Rogue farms dare and risk malts are just their names for standard 2 row varietys But why would they be using two base malts??
Any suggestions as to what I should use?
(Can I mix MO and pale malt together?)

8 Ingredients:
Malts: Carawheat, C15, Rogue Farms Dare & Risk (from what Ive found this is standard
Hops: Rogue Farms Alluvial Hope (And this??)
Yeast & Water: Free Range Coastal Water & Pacman Yeast.
IBU:46

Brutal combines Oregon hops with English Malts. The Oregon grown Crystal hop is a triploid variety developed from the German Hallertau aroma hop variety with contributions from Cascade, Brewers Gold, and Early Green. Crystal is the only hop used in brewing Brutal and it provides a massive amount of aroma without dry-hopping.

So going on that an with my limited experience Im thinking of this.

Maris Otter 40%
Pale Malt 40%
Carawheat 14%
Crystal light 6%

Crystal at 60 30 and 10 to 46 IBU

 

[lukiferj]

Isn't MO just a type of pale/ale malt? I mix pale malt and MO together all the time. Find that all MO in AIPAs end up too malty so mixing with a local gives the malt profile I'm looking for. I like half and half.

 

[fletcher]

DON'T MIX PALE MALT AND MO!!! the word will end!

just kidding. yes you can. they're just two forms of base malt.

sexy

EDIT: recipe looks the goods mate. give it a go and report back?

 

[Truman42]

DON'T MIX PALE MALT AND MO!!! the word will end!

just kidding. yes you can. they're just two forms of base malt.

sexy

EDIT: recipe looks the goods mate. give it a go and report back?

Hell yeah why not...Wasnt sure what advantage or disadvantage mixing MO and Pale would bring, but Lukiferj seems to have answered that one.

I'll give it a crack.

Cheers

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

I generally grabbed Perle Ale malt (which is between Golden Promise and Maris Otter) and found it to be the best base malt for a wide range of beers. If I needed maltier, some judicious use of crystal certainly helped.

 

[lukiferj]

Never tried crystal hops but brutal bitter is a really nice beer. Keen for your thoughts on what it's like after you brew. :beerbang: