Dry Hopping, which hop for recipe?

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Dry Hopping, which hop for recipe?

Post by WishboneBrewery » Sun May 09, 2010 4:15 pm

I've made a recipe with 1kg of Mild Ale malt, now although tasting nice its a little sweet and I feel it needs some Balancing Dry hopping...
Any ideas what hop would Dry hop well with a load of Saaz??? Cheers :)

This is the recipe as it stands:
May Day

Fermentables:
Golden Promise 4000g 74.1%
Mild Ale Malt 1000g 18.5%
Wheat Malt 200g 3.7%
Cara Red 100g 1.9%
Aromatic Malt 100g 1.9%

Hops:
Perle 60 mins 50g
Saaz 15 mins 50g
Saaz 0 mins 50g (20min steep)
Cascade 0 mins 10g (20min steep)

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.052
Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol Content: 5.3% ABV
Total Liquor: 33.7 Litres
Mash Liquor: 13.5 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 48 EBU
Colour: 12 EBC

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Re: Dry Hopping, which hop for recipe?

Post by mysterio » Sun May 09, 2010 8:19 pm

How about dry hopping with some Hallertau Mittelfruh, could go nicely with the Saaz.

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Re: Dry Hopping, which hop for recipe?

Post by HighHops » Sun May 09, 2010 8:20 pm

This already seems to have a lot of late hops, but you could try hallertau mittelfruh! I've used it for dry hopping recently with nice results and it goes well with saaz.

How did you find the perle? I've been put off using it in the past by negative comments from others at Jim's. So never tried it. What's your view?

Nice site btw - I like the mango chutney boiler!

HighHops

Re: Dry Hopping, which hop for recipe?

Post by HighHops » Sun May 09, 2010 8:21 pm

Just beat me to it mysterio - great minds think alike!

mysterio

Re: Dry Hopping, which hop for recipe?

Post by mysterio » Sun May 09, 2010 8:30 pm

That is weird that we settled on the same answer HH :D

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Re: Dry Hopping, which hop for recipe?

Post by WishboneBrewery » Sun May 09, 2010 9:20 pm

Excellent Idea guys :) Mittelfruh it will be...
So a minimum of 10g? 20? 30?
How many days?

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Re: Dry Hopping, which hop for recipe?

Post by mysterio » Mon May 10, 2010 8:16 am

30g for a week sounds good to me...

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Re: Dry Hopping, which hop for recipe?

Post by WishboneBrewery » Mon May 10, 2010 12:10 pm

Will get them in after work. ;-)

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Re: Dry Hopping, which hop for recipe?

Post by WishboneBrewery » Mon May 10, 2010 6:46 pm

OK, I decided on 20g of Mittlefruh for Dry Hopping, on tasting the beer in the FV some of the sweetness has died down letting the Saaz come through.. though the FG is still 1020 so lots of unfermentables. :)

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