Which hops to use

[Pauliet]

Im looking to brew a (23L) massivley hoppy (brewdog style) pale using 1/2 M.O. and 1/2 Lager Malt. I have the following hops to choose from:

Simcoe 400g
El Dorado 350g
Amarillo (pellet) 200g
Citra (pellet) 200g
Wai-iti 100g
Brewers Gold 400g
Perle 3kg (yes a bit overstocked on those)
Dana 100g
Nelson 50g
Fuggles 100g
Multihead 100g
Progress 100g
Target 100g
Willamette 100g
Dana 150g

As you can see Im a bit of a hop magnet and Im looking for a brew that is similar to Brewdogs Dead Pony.

Any advice for a good brew welcome!

Cheers

Paul

[Normski]

Simco, Citra & Mosaic.

[eguin]

Check out the this thread always well hopped beers

viewtopic.php?f=24&t=63471

[Pauliet]

Thanks gents

[Clibit]

Normski's three are the alleged Dead Pony hops. There's no sub for Mosaic, maybe mix some Amarillo/El Dorado/Brewer's Gold?

[Pauliet]

Cheers Clibit, the Dead Pony is my favourite BD beer but I dont have any Mosaic......may attempt that one when I get hold of some.

[Normski]

Cheers Clibit, the Dead Pony is my favourite BD beer but I dont have any Mosaic......may attempt that one when I get hold of some.

Hi Pauliet
The Malt Millar has Mosaic in stock.
Norm

[Pauliet]

OK, decided to go with the following;

3kg Lager Malt
2kg Pale Malt
60 min mash @ 66 degrees
60 min boil
Hop bursting with
5 min - 50g Simcoe, 100g Amarillo, 50g Nelson Sauvin
0 min - 50g Citra, 125g Amarillo, 100g Citra, 75g Simcoe
Fermented at 20 degrees with US-05 for 10 days
Dry Hopped for a further 6 days with 50g Citra, 50g Amarillo
OG - 1.049 FG - 1.011 4.9% ABV
IBU came in at around the 60 mark

Have tried it now from the cornie and a very nice drink. Massive hop flavours coming through (no real surprise there lol) and very easy on the palate.

[Normski]

Bloody hell. Thats over half a kilo of hops.

[mozza]

I would cry a bit inside if I spent that much on hops for one brew!

[Barley Water]

Well if you feel like screwing around a little bit try double dry hopping. I'm in the middle of doing that to a Dogfish Head 60 type beer right now. My next little project is going to be a Pliney the Elder clone. I bought the hops for that online as a kit and it was only $15 (enough to make a 5 gallon batch). Right now, the local store is selling hops for $3 an ounce so since there is somewhere north of 12 ounces of hops in Pilney for a 5 gallon batch that's a damn good deal. This whole thing should be an interesting excercise and entertaining if nothing else.

Hops are currently making up almost 50% of the cost of a batch depending of course on what you are making. If you decide to make a bunch of hop bombs that starts getting expensive so I am staring to get picky about where I buy my hops because you can save some serious money buying on line.