Hop Monster

[brewcopete]

I brewed this last month and on a recent trip to Derby with a group of beer writers and general beer geeks this one came out tops in the derby brewery tap. So if you can get hold of the hops then get brewing!

Marris Otter Pale 88.2%
Munich Malt 11.8%

4.5% ABV
OG 1043.6
FG 1008.7

IBU 80

First hop charge - Amarillo 9.5%aa - 50%, Cascade 7.6%aa - 20%, Centennial 11.9%aa - 10%, Bravo 15.7%aa - 20%
Late hops exactly the same at flame off.

[HighHops]

Sounds nice!
I made a cascade / amarillo pale ale (Cascarillo Ale) in June that was one of my best brews to date. They do go really well together.

Never heard of Bravo - but looks a bit high on the AA for late addition!

[yogester]

Never heard of Bravo - but looks a bit high on the AA for late addition!

I almost always only play with high AA hops and have found most of them extremely suitable for late additions. The vast majority of the new super AA hops are high oil hops so you want the late additions or they will be lost to the boil. Bravo to me is earthy (almost danky) with lush citrus aromatics too - makes sense knowing its Zeus/Nugget parentage.

[HighHops]

Thanks for the advice yogester. Sounds nice!

[yogester]

Thanks for the advice yogester. Sounds nice!

I bottled up my "Hop Folly" the other day which had over 900g of hops in a 26L batch! I lost 10 L to hops in the boiler and almost another two litres to the dry hops (of which I did three lots of three days each - one lot in the primary when I was close to FG and the rest in secondary).

The two main hops in it were Apollo and Bravo and will update my Brewday post when I do my first tasting tomorrow night!