Help with home grown hops recipe. (Beetlejuice)

[wjohnson12321]

After harvesting my first years hops (challenger) and drying them out on the window sill I find lots and lots of small black beetles that seem to have been living on the hops. After removing them all I now fancy making a beer with these hops and wanted to call it BeetleJuice.

Now I was thinking of doing an IPA or a SMASH with the challenger but was wondering about making it BLACK (Like crushed up beetles) in colour. Anybody got a recipe I could go for black in colour but tastes like a very hoppy SMASH/IPA?

Cheers!

[Wolfy]

Love the name/idea for your beer.
I like using Midnite Wheat malt to give colour but little-to-no bitter-roast-flavour, about ~100-150g will make the beer (as the name suggests) black as Midnight.

[wjohnson12321]

Thanks for the reply buddy, Now just to find somewhere that sells midnight wheat

[seymour]

Thanks for the reply buddy, Now just to find somewhere that sells midnight wheat

Or just take any ol' wheat and roast your own. Cheaper and easier than you can imagine.

[wjohnson12321]

Will I not end up introducing lots of burnt/dark notes though? I wanted the colour without the taste.

[seymour]

Will I not end up introducing lots of burnt/dark notes though? I wanted the colour without the taste.

Then just do the cold-steep technique everyone's been talking about. It's worth experimenting with, at least.

[far9410]

Hi How many grams hops did you harvest and what type are they, I didn't dry mine just chucked em in green, which is ok for me as i only have enough for one brew.

[wjohnson12321]

its the first year so i wasnt expecting much but i got around 85g (minus beetles) dried off it. So Easily enough to make a brew. Oh and yeh they are Challenger which is my favourite hop

[seymour]

its the first year so i wasnt expecting much but i got around 85g (minus beetles) dried off it. So Easily enough to make a brew. Oh and yeh they are Challenger which is my favourite hop

That's good growth, well done. Must mean you got a healthy rhizome as well. Just imagine your future crops!

[far9410]

Great keep us posted!

[jmc]

I recently did a Dunkelweizen (23L) and used 200g of Carafa Special Type 2 (1200 EBC) from The Malt Miller.

I didn't bother with cold steep but still it got minimal roastiness.

[super_simian]

I believe wheat's lack of husk leads to minimal roasty flavour addition.

[jmc]

I believe wheat's lack of husk leads to minimal roasty flavour addition.

The Carafa Special is made from de-husked barley malt.

Husk removal reduces the roast flavour in this roasted malt.

our unique de-husked roasted barley malt adds aroma, color and body, with a mild. smooth flavor

See Weyermann site

[wjohnson12321]

Thanks guys helpful as always . Hope its gonna make a good brew, first i've used homegrown hops so will be interesting to see how much alpha acid i get off em.

[seymour]

Bump.

So, how did your homegrown hop batch turn-out?