What is your favourite German/Czech hop variety?

[seymour]

What is your favourite German/Czech hop variety, and what is your favourite way to use it?

Discuss. Recipe details welcome.

[mozza]

Saaz is lovely in my opinion in lagers. But was impressed recently with Perle. Gives a nice deep flavour and made a cracking lager. I've yet to try it in an ale

[Thorbz]

Saaz for me also, but I'm not currently getting the flavour or aroma contribution I'm looking for. I brewed two lagers last winter, bittered with Magnum, the first with 70g late, and the second with 140g late, and I'm not getting the Saaz hit you get from Budvar, for example. Many of the lager recipes I see on the net have an addition at about 30 minutes from F/O, so that might be a next step.

[jaroporter]

i'm a perle fanboy. love it. early/late lager/stout. decent AAs but not over the top. great flavour. not tried any of the newer hops though

[Beer O'Clock]

Saaz. End of....

[Clibit]

Can I just lob Slovenia in here please?!

I love Bobek.

[Manx Guy]

Hi!

Saaz is great and goes well with Hallertau in 1:1 I did a cracking Bo pils with this combo recently

I also love Tett as a single hop in Kolsch its subtle and compliments the styles soft fruitiness (from the yeast strain) nicely.
My recipe is simple: Pils 80% Munich 15% Wheat 5% to 1048

Tett to 20-25 IBU 75 min
and aroma at 5mins to your hearts content. Although high aroma beers are not strictly to style - but that's why we homebrew right?
90 min mash with 3/kg and 75 min boil
As per a certain well known breweries 'suggestion'...

Perle I have to say I do like also but have not yet tried it alone in anything myself - I've only had single hop commercial brews



Cheers

Guy

[critch]

saaz for me too.

I did a lager with mittlefruh and saaz. it was rather nice

[Rookie]

Saaz is a no-brainer, but I recently made a German pilsner with mittlefrueh that was wonderfull.