Hops that work well together.

Nigel1969 · Post by **Nigel1969** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:29 pm

Which variety of hops, have you had your best results from, when used together.

Dennis King · Post by **Dennis King** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:37 pm

Challenger and EKG
Challenger and Styrian goldings
Simco and Willamette.

to name a few.

Belter · Post by **Belter** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:00 pm

Challenger & EKG & Styrian goldings also

Post by **seymour** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:36 pm

Challenger, Progress
Magnum, Citra
Green Bullet, Nelson Sauvin
Cluster, Mt Hood
Fuggle, Cascade
Columbus, Willamette

Pinto · Post by **Pinto** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:14 am

Hops that work together wrote: Simcoe and Pot Pourri

Oh, I strongly agree

I like Challenger / Fuggles, and Galaxy/Galaxy/Shedload of Galaxy in the dry hop too

Rookie · Post by **Rookie** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 1:15 am

Challenger/EKG
Simcoe/amarillo.
Some time ago I did an amber with simcoe/summit/saphir that turned out great.

barney · Post by **barney** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:21 am

Sovereign and EKG

Post by **seymour** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 2:22 pm

In case you're interested, there are at least two similar past conversations where you can get more great pairings:

Great British hop combinations? viewtopic.php?f=11&t=59891&hilit=+two+hop+combo#p630072

Your Most Delicious Two Hop Combo? viewtopic.php?f=11&t=58947&hilit=+two+hop+combo#p619693

Clibit · Post by **Clibit** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:21 pm

seymour wrote:Challenger, Progress
Magnum, Citra
Green Bullet, Nelson Sauvin
Cluster, Mt Hood
Fuggle, Cascade
Columbus, Willamette

Seymour could I ask, are all these combos a case of the first for bittering, the second for aroma? Or do you like some together at the aroma stage of proceedings? I've been wondering what to pair NS with, so cheers. Guessing Green Bullet for bittering.

Post by **seymour** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:56 pm

that's right, and the beer I refer to is Marble Dobber.

Clibit · Post by **Clibit** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:10 am

Of course! How could I forget....?

I'd be interested in hop aroma combos that people like, as well as bittering/aroma combos.

scuppeteer · Post by **scuppeteer** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:32 am

Clibit wrote:Of course! How could I forget....?

I'd be interested in hop aroma combos that people like, as well as bittering/aroma combos.

You've opened up a whole new discussion for aroma combo's now!

I like:

US Cascade/Galaxy
UK Cascade/Bramling X
EKG/Fuggles
Pilgrim/Bramling X
Challenger/EKG
Admiral/Phoenix
Styrian Golding/US Cascade

To name but a few...

Nigel1969 · Post by **Nigel1969** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:27 pm

Thanks for replies, esp Seymour. What would we do without you

I'm brewing tomorrow, and have 5.5k pale ale, 1k crystal, 200g chocolate, 200g biscuit, 100g torrified wheat, along with hop selection of 100g fuggles, 50g ek goldings, 50g first gold, and 70g brambling x. I'm on the look out for recipes involving some of these ingredients. Only yeast I have left is a packet of Safale s o4. Any ideas? much appreciated.

Clibit · Post by **Clibit** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:26 am

You could do an Orkney Dark Island clone...

http://www.hopandgrain.com/recipeSearch ... ark+Island

The hops in that recipe are not what the Orkney website says it uses - the brewery uses EKG and First Gold...

http://www.sinclairbreweries.co.uk/bott ... sland.html

I've done this with EKG and it was excellent. I didn't have any First Gold but wish I had. One thing, a week or two ago I had my first ever Dark Island, on draught at my local, and it was nothing like the recipes that you find on the web, or the beer I made. It was black, a dark mild. The beer I made was great though, in fact I enjoyed it more than the real one I had. Would be interesting to taste the bottled version. I did a second version, and increased the Crystal to 6% and the Chocolate to 4%, and used Aurora and Centennial hops, and this was even better, to my taste. It was dark, smooth and lush.

Post by **seymour** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:36 am

+1 to Clibit's suggestions. Orkney Dark Island is a masterpiece, and I've never heard of any clone attempt turning out badly either. Go for it!

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