brewing with fresh hops

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brewing with fresh hops

Post by skyblue67 » Mon Jul 10, 2017 12:09 pm

I have a decent quantity of Prima Donna (aka First Gold) hops growing in the garden so I'm thinking of brewing a wet hop beer. Has anyone got any recipes or tips?
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Re: brewing with fresh hops

Post by IPA » Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:54 pm

skyblue67 wrote:I have a decent quantity of Prima Donna (aka First Gold) hops growing in the garden so I'm thinking of brewing a wet hop beer. Has anyone got any recipes or tips?
Use four times as much as you would with dried hops
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Re: brewing with fresh hops

Post by Stewb » Mon Jul 10, 2017 8:06 pm

I brewed the beer below with a green hopped fuggle last year. Hops as below for simcoe on bittering then armfulls of fuggle at 10, 5 and flameout.

I went with 5:1 on the ratios of wet equivalent to dry and it was a bloody lovely beer.
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Re: brewing with fresh hops

Post by skyblue67 » Mon Jul 10, 2017 10:34 pm

Thanks for the replies. That recipe looks good Stewb. I'm going to do something similar, bittering with dried hops and then late additions with fresh hops.
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Re: brewing with fresh hops

Post by IronBlue » Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:42 pm

Similar to above, 5 or 6 times the weight of dry hops, and I use Magnum for neutral controlled bittering to get the 'main IBU' where you want it. Then dump in a bucket load of fresh hops in the last 10 minutes. You can still construct a recipe with the green hops, just divide a typical dry Alpha value for your hop type by the 5 or 6 ratio you used and put the full 'green weight' in the recipe. (I have Cascade which is normally about 8%, so I put the green weight in the recipe with an Alpha value of about 8/5=1.6%)

A simple grain bill with a lot of green hops makes my favourite beer of the year.

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