Typical hops for beer styles

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Scotty

Typical hops for beer styles

Post by Scotty » Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:52 am

as above.......

what are the most commonly used hops for different beer styles, whether that be for bitter, aroma or both?

I've got some recipie ideas and I would like to know if they would work with my chosen hops.

Ta

mysterio

Re: Typical hops for beer styles

Post by mysterio » Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:18 am

What beer styles are you interested in. There's something like 100 styles out there.

http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/catdex.php

What hops do you have? Here's a list of hops available to the UK market, and whether they are aroma, bittering or dual purpose:

http://www.charlesfaram.co.uk/Variety.asp

Scotty

Re: Typical hops for beer styles

Post by Scotty » Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:25 pm

mysterio wrote:What beer styles are you interested in. There's something like 100 styles out there.

http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/catdex.php

What hops do you have? Here's a list of hops available to the UK market, and whether they are aroma, bittering or dual purpose:

http://www.charlesfaram.co.uk/Variety.asp

Whoops, that's working nightshift for ya! :oops:
Mainly looking at the general bitters, pale ales, maybe some belgian dubbels

mysterio

Re: Typical hops for beer styles

Post by mysterio » Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:29 pm

For pale ales, Goldings and Fuggles are the numero uno and due respectively, but anything from that Farams list under UK hops will see a lot of use, the likes of Challenger, WGV, Target (for bittering), and more recently Cascade, Amarillo etc.

Dubbel, probably Styrian Goldings, Goldings, Saaz... but its not a hoppy beer so you could use any mild hop.

Theres no rules though, make a lager with Goldings and a Bitter with Hallertau if the mood takes you

Scotty

Re: Typical hops for beer styles

Post by Scotty » Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:26 am

cheers mysterio, both links are good. The second especially as it gives a rough idea of each beer styles' flavours

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