Challenger Recipe - your advice please

[Skittlebrau]

Hi all

I'm still in the process of getting to know different hops. Next on the list are Galaxy and Challenger. Below is the recipe I've put together for Challenger. I would like advice from people who already know this hop. The recipe currently uses all 100g I have and is geared up to be a bitter, with some small amounts of roasted malts for complexity. However, I could just easily brew an IPA-ish type thing if that is better suited to the hop, or to an exercise in "using loads of a hop to understand what it tastes like" such as this. This is just a starting point for a collective brainstorm. All help and advice is much appreciated, as always.

Shuttleworth
Standard/Ordinary Bitter

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 25.0
Total Grain (kg): 3.820
Total Hops (g): 100.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.036 (°P): 9.0
Final Gravity (FG): 1.009 (°P): 2.3
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 3.54 %
Colour (SRM): 8.3 (EBC): 16.4
Bitterness (IBU): 32.9 (Average)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 75
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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3.248 kg Maris Otter Malt (85%)
0.248 kg Crystal 60 (6.5%)
0.248 kg Wheat Malt (6.5%)
0.038 kg Amber Malt (1%)
0.038 kg Chocolate, Pale (1%)

Hop Bill
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13.0 g Challenger Leaf (10.12% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.5 g/L)
87.0 g Challenger Leaf (10.12% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil) (3.5 g/L)

Misc Bill
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Single step Infusion at 67°C for 90 Minutes.
Fermented at 18°C with Ale yeast


Recipe Generated with BrewMate

[Rookie]

I think you're good to go. A couple of years ago I had an all challenger beer that was pretty good. Challenger reminds me a bit of goldings, which is probably why they work so well together.

[DeGarre]

I always think of Challenger like Northdown but not quite as nice. Challenger works nice too in beers where you would just use a bittering addition at or around 35 ibus.

[harbinger]

I added challenger to a lager with saaz by accident and it came out not too bad,flavour moved away from a lager taste to something else but couldnt describe it as overly unpleasant a bit like a lithuanian beer!!(if that helps)

[raiderman]

It blends beautifully with cascade or delta or any of the cascade type hops and makes a great pale coloured bitter