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SO it looks like I am going to have about 2lbs of 3 year old vine and .5lb of 1 year old vine cascade wet hops and maybe .5lb of Zeus 1 year old vine wet hops. Anyone have a suggestion on a pale ale I could do with these? I also have a few pounds of pellet Cascade. Maybe a Sierra Nevada type pale? 5 or 10 gallons, doesnt matter to me.

I was planning on doing a fresh hopped beer with my Cascade harvest.
Aparently this Vinnie guy knows a thing or 2 about brewing.


http://www.musiccitybrewers.com/docs/hoptime.pdf

semaj0006 wrote:I was planning on doing a fresh hopped beer with my Cascade harvest.
Aparently this Vinnie guy knows a thing or 2 about brewing.


http://www.musiccitybrewers.com/docs/hoptime.pdf

LOL wow that is one great looking website!

I think I will have enough next year to do that recipe. This year not so much on the chinook. I think I am gonna just go the simple pale ale route and see what I come up with. I;m going to brew either friday or saturday

Personally, I'd save those wet hops for a late addition and dry hopping. I've been to the Wet Hop Festival at O'Brien's in SD 3 years running. My favorite wet hop beers have been those where wet hops were used in a hopback and/or dry hopping. BTW, a few breweries I'm familiar with turn their mash tuns into hop backs for these beers to handle the bulk of the fresh hops - this is what I plan to do this year with my fresh hop ale. I've got a good lot of Chinooks that are almost ready.

I would second the hop back idea. Last year our club did a big brew where we dumped about 25# of fresh hops (mostly cascade) into the mashtun and recirculated about 180 gallons of hot wort through them for awhile before running the wort through the chiller. Was really tasty stuff.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company