SMaSH - Topaz or Motueka?

[HopWroester]

Panning a SMaSH brew this weekend, any one used either Topaz or Motueka
hops?

Topaz is 15% AA
Motueka is 8% AA

[Clibit]

I can vouch for Motueka, top hop, great on its own. Not yet used Topaz.

[HopWroester]

thanks Clibit

I'm thinking of this hop shedule

30g@60
20g@10
20g@dry hop

comes in at 42 IBU.

[stevej383]

As Clibit says its a top hop i have used it several times

[Clibit]

thanks Clibit

I'm thinking of this hop shedule

30g@60
20g@10
20g@dry hop

comes in at 42 IBU.

I would probably use a different hop for bittering, depends what you've got, but the Topaz would probably work. I'd use more late hops too, I like a good amount of hop flavour and aroma, without going crazy. Motueka is tasty, but not a big, in your face hop. Depends what you want of course, lots of ways to skin a SMaSH.

Maybe 15-20g Topaz at 60, 30g Motueka at 10 and 30g Motueka dry. About 35 - 45 IBUs depending on the amount of Topaz. That's only 75-80g hops in total, about 3g per litre, which is not heavy. I often end up at around 5g per litre

[HopWroester]

I've got 200g of cascade and 500g of summet,

Used Cascade loads lately and a little bored of it!

Never used summet,this works out about 68IBU, might drop the summet to 15g

[Clibit]

Yes 68 is a lot, what OG you going for?

[HopWroester]

this is the plan

the oats seem to add some nice mouth feel to my beers, or just my taste buds are shot

so guess not really a SMaSH!

[Clibit]

I would aim for 35-40 IBUs, so the bitterness doesn't overpower the Motueka. Reduce the Summit and shift 20g Motueka from 10 to 0 mins.

[HopWroester]

Will run with this, see how it goes

[Clibit]

That looks good, 46 IBUs isn't OTT. Good luck.