What hops for my spring ale

[JamesH]

Hello all,

I need help picking some hops for my Spring ale brew.

I will be having my first brew today and tomorrow after a break of almost a year. It will be a 4 gallon brew with a simple grain bill of just 3kg MO (220g of sugar thrown in the boil). I have 100g of each of the following hops:

Challenger
Fuggles
Hallertau
Bramling Cross

What would you recommend I use for this beer? I am having a little Spring ale competition with a friend so want it to be a bit special.

Thanks,

James.

[scuppeteer]

Challenger for bittering.
Fuggles 2nd's
Steep the X and maybe dry hop with the rest of the Fuggles and X.
Had an unfortunate experience with the Hallertau so can't comment on it.

[JamesH]

Cheers Scups,

I'll go for that then.

[Rookie]

Hello all,

I need help picking some hops for my Spring ale brew.

I will be having my first brew today and tomorrow after a break of almost a year. It will be a 4 gallon brew with a simple grain bill of just 3kg MO (220g of sugar thrown in the boil). I have 100g of each of the following hops:

Challenger
Fuggles
Hallertau
Bramling Cross

What would you recommend I use for this beer? I am having a little Spring ale competition with a friend so want it to be a bit special.

Thanks,

James.

I'd throw him a curve and use the hallertau since it's usually associated with lager. It will be a nice surprize to find it in an ale.
What yeast are you going to use?

[JamesH]

Too late I'm afraid. I did the whole brew today. I went for Challenger then Fuggles. Using Muntons Gold for the yeast.

[Rookie]

Too late I'm afraid. I did the whole brew today. I went for Challenger then Fuggles. Using Muntons Gold for the yeast.

That's a good combo.