help me choose a hop!

[alfie09]

hello. i plan to brew tommorrow using my fullers bengal lancer yeast . the grist i have to plan is this

pale 3990grams
crystal 219grams
chocolate 34grams

i want to hop to 28ish ebu's. i have these hops and i cant pick one to use argh!

first gold 7.25%aa
tettnang 3.8%aa
aramis 8.5%aa
amarrilo 10.7%aa
fuggle pellet (aa% unknown) 50grams

everything except the fuggle are all 100 grams of hops.

[jimp2003]

I had some Abingdon Bridge the other week from the Loose Cannon Brewery in Abingdon and its a bitter with Amariillo hops in it. Its not a hop bomb but the restrained use of the amarillo gave it a great flavour. The IBU value is probably what you are aiming for so I would use just the amarillo with a 60 min addition for bittering and then 10 and 0 mins for flavour without going OTT.

[alfie09]

how about this

amarillo
Date:
Gyle Number:
Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 8 lbs. 12.7 oz 3990 grams 94%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 0 lbs. 7.7 oz 215 grams 5.2%
Chocolate Malt 1050 EBC 0 lbs. 1.2 oz 34 grams 0.8%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Amarillo Whole 10.7 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 0.9 oz 27 grams 40.3%
Amarillo Whole 10.7 % 15 mins 0 lbs. 0.5 oz 15 grams 22.4%
Amarillo Whole 10.7 % 5 mins 0 lbs. 0.5 oz 15 grams 22.4%
Amarillo Whole 10.7 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 0.4 oz 10 grams 14.9%


Final Volume: 25 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.039
Final Gravity: 1.009
Alcohol Content: 3.9% ABV
Total Liquor: 36.2 Litres
Mash Liquor: 10.6 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 77 %
Bitterness: 28.0698344431674 EBU
Colour: 26 EBC

[jimp2003]

The hop schedule looks good. The EBU value that you have there seemed a bit low and when I bunged your recipe into Beer Engine it came to 45 EBU. Have you calculated for a low hop utilisation rate?

[alfie09]

would i have a low hop utlisation? because of low alcohol level??

[alfie09]

went for fuggles bittering and first gold for flavour and aroma. all 100 grams of them !!!. the date on the first gold was 2009 so i thought i better use them up. going to be a long night only just doughed in

[jimp2003]

That would have been my second option for the hops - nice one!

Have a good brew night!

Cheers!

Jim

[jimp2003]

would i have a low hop utlisation? because of low alcohol level??

The settings on Beer Engine on my laptop have the hop utilisation at 39.75%. If you used different software or calculated on paper using a lower utilisation rate then that would explain why you have 28 EBU and I have 45 EBU using the info for your recipe ingredients.

[alfie09]

sorry yes i turned mine down to 25%. as i was told that is a more ideal setting

[dynamic dave]

I would say your fuggles would be around alpha acid: 3.8-5.5%

[Rookie]

would i have a low hop utlisation? because of low alcohol level??

No. The higher the O G the lower the hop utilisation, the lower the O G the higher the hop utilisation.