What shall I do with these hops?

[daf]

I'd like to make a really hoppy pale ale, and clear some space in the freezer...pressure from SWMBO about the packs of hops.

I have...

Northern Brewer 33g
Styrian Goldings 50g
East Kent Goldings 70g
Nelson Sauvin 30g
Challenger 75g
Goldings 100g

6kg of Maris, some Carapils and some Light Crystal.

A cracking HBS down the road too.

[Laripu]

I can't tell you what to do, but I'd make a big, super-malty beer to balance the hops.
To layer malt flavors, I'd take 500 g of the Maris Otter and toast it on the oven at 350°F = 177°C for 30 minutes. Let it cool and store it overnight.

So:
5.5 kg Maris Otter
500 g toasted MO
500 g carapils
500 g crystal
Mash: protein test for 20 minutes, saccharification for 90 minutes.

You should get 23L at 1.070, roughly. Since you want a hoppy beer, select hops to get 60 BU, but with 30g at 15 minutes and 30g at knock out. You've got lots to choose from; you won't use it all up. That will still be a monster. Bottle in the smallest bottles you can find, ideally 330 ml. This will be a good one to age.

But that's just what I'd do. As they say, YMMV.

[daf]

Blimey! That would blow away the cobwebs! However I'm definitely after more of a pale or golden ale with lots of hop tang, is there a recipe generator online which can do something if you enter in the ingredients?

I can of course get 100g of Citra or Amarillo down the road.

[Laripu]

Blimey! That would blow away the cobwebs! However I'm definitely after more of a pale or golden ale with lots of hop tang, is there a recipe generator online which can do something if you enter in the ingredients?

I can of course get 100g of Citra or Amarillo down the road.

Don't you think you have enough hops as it is? I think you may be a hoarder.

For a recipe generator / calculator online, try one of these, all free:

Brewology101 (fairly new, with a mobile app too)
Recipator (very old)
....and I think Graham has a program that you can download, probably from the JBK main page.

Also, I posted a recipe yesterday in this section for a blond ale that you could easily modify by adding a moving van full of hops to it.

[Laripu]

Graham Wheeler's recipe calculator, from the JBK banner:

http://www.practicalbrewing.co.uk/main/ ... eerengine/

[jaroporter]

if it's a summer session ale you want, any recipe along the lines of GWs exmoor gold is gonna be great. those styrians and EKGs late are a surefire winner. as an aside, and possibly 'cause i'ḿ about to do so anyways, i'd probably go with lari's grist (less some of the crystal perhaps) and then chuck every last golding i have at it in the last ten minutes

[daf]

Thanks....will consult my Wheeler now!