East Kent Goldings Recipe?

[mctoon]

I have 2 x 100g of 4.6AA EKGs sitting doing nowt. Can i just substitute for goldings and use the recipes in GWs book ,,i know they are used in some recipes in tiny amounts , i was hoping to use most of them up,,,,anyone know of a recipe?

[DarloDave]

I've used them as a late hop and found them rather nice!

[Garth]

Have you got any Challenger Mal? You could make a nice Summer Lightning Clone.

or just make a recipe to suit what you have, single hop brews often turn out great.

For a 23 litre batch for example, 4kg Pale, 150g Crystal to about 1038-40, then Goldings 40g at 90mins, 30g at 10mins, and then 20g at 0 mins. Obviously if you want to break into the second packet you could up the malt and the hops for a stronger brew.

[CrownCap]

100% Satisfaction from Marc Ollosson's book is just pale malt and EKG's but it is a fantastic pint (and one of my favourites too!).

[mctoon]

Cheers fellas, i will give the single hop idea a try. I thought EKGs were used as late hop edition as borodave said. Not to worry, as long as its nice that the main thing

Cheers Mal

[Garth]

One of the only reasons that they're usually used as late additions is that there as other bittering hops that have three time the AA of Goldings, therefore making a brew cheaper to make. But they do fine as bittering, flavour and aroma.

[coatesg]

OG 1040, 5-7% crystal, bittering to 30-35IBU and half ounce each at 15min, 0min and as a dry hop for 5 days before kegging/bottling. Can't go wrong - classic english style bitter.

[Subsonic]

I often make my house bitter with either pure goldings or pure fuggles. They are lovely on their own although a bit pricey. Give it a go you may be pleasantly suprised.

[dave-o]

I made a purely EKG brew. It was very pleasant and easy drinking, if a bit simple.

I used 50g for 90 minutes, 25g for 15 mins.