What is your favourite English hop variety?
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What is your favourite English hop variety?
What is your favourite English hop variety, and what is your favourite way to use it?
Discuss. Recipe details welcome.
Discuss. Recipe details welcome.
Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
EKG.
Quintessentially English.....incredibly versatile. Great as a single hop and blends well with many other hop varieties.
Quintessentially English.....incredibly versatile. Great as a single hop and blends well with many other hop varieties.
Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
Not sure, close call, I like ekg, first gold, northdown, bramling x, challenger, but there are lots I've not tried. I had a pint of cask conditioned single hop blonde ale with Pilgrim last week, which was delicious. Reminded me how good an all English ale can be. Will be getting some Pilgrim for sure.
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Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
Challenger is my favourite as it can work for anything, in anything, and at 9%AA it's efficient for bittering additions unlike most English hops.
But I always like to dry hop English Ales with some form of Goldings too.
But I always like to dry hop English Ales with some form of Goldings too.
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Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
I really like target. Bit of a boring choice but the depth of flavour you get from it is really complex.
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Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
Challenger . Love that marmalade flavour you get from it and its a very good bittering hop too
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Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
Challenger and Northdown.
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Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
EKG for quality, Challenger for versatility.
Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
goldings are a cracking allrounder but admiral used heavily late on is delicious
Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
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But have only tried ekg, fuggles, challenger and first gold.
Looking forward to giving keyworth early ago
But have only tried ekg, fuggles, challenger and first gold.
Looking forward to giving keyworth early ago
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Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
Challenger is the best all round flavour for both bittering and aroma IMO
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Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
I just love Fuggles, especially done at low IBU's with emphasis on flavour additions in the hop schedule of a bitter with lashings of crystal malt in the bill.
Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
ive only ever used it for bittering, ill give that a go!TC2642 wrote:Challenger is the best all round flavour for both bittering and aroma IMO
Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
I think Challenger is a pretty decent aroma hop. York Brewery's Yorkshire Terrier is a very good ale that is single hopped with challenger.
Re: What is your favourite English hop variety?
Did not know that. Terrier is an amazing pint.Mr. Dripping wrote:York Brewery's Yorkshire Terrier is a very good ale that is single hopped with challenger.
Might order some Challenger soon!