Dark Beer with American type hops?

[oakerspocus]

Some advice please.

I have some leftover ingredients from making a Dark Ale/stout and want to use them up. Pale malt, chocolate malt, black malt, crystal etc a tin of coopers dark LME and some DME

However, I used my leftover hops from the last batch in a Golden ale. Rather than order some more fuggles and goldings I would like to use some of my hop stock up. These are more suited to APA style varieties.

I have Cascade, Galena, Magnum, Citra and amarillo.

I will be doing a partial mash and partial boil brew.

Question is, has anyone ever brewed anything similar? Am I better off just ordering some classic British hops or should I have a go? Would it be black APA? (Now that should start an argument? ;)

[Dads_Ale]

Not yet but am moving in that direction. Bought a Revisionist dark IPA from Tesco to see.

I would say give it a go. Nothing ventured nothing gained

[Rookie]

Several years ago I brewed a sweet stout with galena for bittering and cascades for flavor and aroma. I was very happy with the results.

[oakerspocus]

Thanks guys...think I will give the American hops a go and keep you all posted...

[Underground Joe]

Sounds like an American brown ale is on the cards. It's one of my favourite styles. Use the magnum for bittering and hit it late with the amarillo, cascade and citra, saving some for dry hopping.

[oakerspocus]

Yeah that sounds good...

[bob3000]

can work if done well.... can also be foul.

[Matt12398]

Agreed, American brown ale is the answer.

[JKaranka]

A double / triple stout with a combo of black and chocolate malts and plenty of late American hops also work really well. You can keep it simple but extremely flavoursome.

[Clibit]

American brown ales, porters and stouts all use American hops. I made a fantastic stout with Centennial and Cascade using US-05 yeast.

[Barley Water]

Oh sure, you can have some really big fun making dark beer with American hops. My plan is to make a Surley Bender type beer however I will likely sub my favorite American hop combination which is Warrior for bittering, Amarillo and Simcoe for flavor, aroma and of course dry hopping ('cause I'm a low cohumolone type of guy). I'm also going to do an American amber ale as well likely using the same hop combination.