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Grew chinook and columbus hops this year and got 1 ounce dried between them(first year hops) I was thinking of using 1 ounce of chinook and columbus pellets for bittering then following up with my hops for last minutes of boil following up with an ounce of cascade for an ipa. The malts will be 7lbs amber LME with crytal 40 and honey malt. Anyone use this hop combo and or what are your opinions?

Have'nt used chinook and columbus together myself but I just used chinook to bitter and dry hop and LOT of fresh Cascade cones off my vines through late additions. Am Red Rye in fermenter. I'll let you know how it turns out.

I love Cascade and Chinook together.

FWIW, since you don't really know the alphas for those hops, I'd estimate them at the center of their respective alpha ranges, and then aim your recipe so that the bittering level falls somewhere in between an APA and an IPA. That way, if you miss low, you will hit APA bittering. If you miss high, you 'll hit IPA bittering. If you somhow hit it dead on, you'll still have a nice drinkable beer. Which ever way it ends up it'll be good.

HTH-

scotchpine wrote:Have'nt used chinook and columbus together myself but I just used chinook to bitter and dry hop and LOT of fresh Cascade cones off my vines through late additions. Am Red Rye in fermenter. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Just an update on my Panama Red. Bottled yesterday (should be my last batch, next one gets kegged!) I know it's green but sample tastes fantastic! Harvest Hopped Caramel Red Rye. Kinda like a 5.75 ABV Big Hoppy Monster. 67 IBU's. I'm really thinking about planting some other hop varieties in the spring now.

well tasted final results. Perfect. Cascade gave a great floral grapefruit aroma and the chinook/columbus bittered well with the crystal and honey malt. Tastes alot like Bear Republic Racer 5. Thanks for the above input and we now know this combo works well.

I've made a Cent/Cascade/Chinook IPA several times. I always like the results I had when I used less chinook to cascade and centennial...say 1 part chinook or less to every three or four parts cascade/cent, but I'm sure you can't go wrong no matter how you hop an IPA with those hops.