Does anyone have a general list or feel for which hops are compatable with which hops in a recipe and why? I know some hops like EKG and Chinook are good for English IPA's, Centennial and Cascade are good for APA's.
Are there information as to why? Other hop pairings (or more?)?
Thanks. I was hoping for a little more (even experiential) data on multiple hop combinations, not substitutions or basic properties of a single hop. I only manage around 15-20 batches a year. At that rate, I won't make a reasonable hop combination comparison until I'm dead.
I'm a believer in brewing styles for where you live using local ingredients. So American IPAs, APAs, use hops that start with C, with some A's (Amarillo). If you live in the UK, bitters, best bitters, ESBs like Fuggles, EKG, etc. Germany, Czech, use Noble hops and do lagering. If you live in the U.S. NW, yoiu better learn about Willamette and Mt. Hood. New Zealand, Sticklebract and Riwaka, among others are unique to that area.
I believe Jamil Zainasheff included a "hop charachter wheel" in the book Brewing Classic Styles in which he groups hops by family, flavor or pedigreee charachteristics to show which varieties should go well together. It is copyrighted material and I don't think you can find it anywhere but in his book. I have not personally seen or used the wheel so I can't speak to how well it achieves its goal.
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as general rules of thumb, and I use that very liberally, there are SOME guidelines, but in home brew it is ultimately the brew master...from what I have read...
Amarillo works with almost anything and produces a beautiful aroma.
Centennial, Cascade, and Cluster/Columbus (cant remember which), are often used and are from what I understand somewhat "classical" (lack of a better term), aren't they coined the 3 Cs?
Williamette, seems to be a rising in popularity, as it carries more earthy tones and I for one am going to pour in 2oz in my next brown.
Nugget, fuggles and EKG as Rich pointed out are more british hops.
personally, I was to experiment with Pride of Ringwood (discontinued), Williamette, and Amarillo together.
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I have also been to the bar tonite...so my evaluations may be skewed.
The three C's would be Cascade, Chinook, and Centennial, with Columbus sometimes thrown in, though it is considerably higher AA and formerly called Tomahawk. Cluster and Crystal are both exceptions to the Cs rule. Generally, hops are derived from a certain parent. English parentage hops, like Fuggle and Goldings, are commonly used in both British and American brewing, as well as occasionally in Belgian brewing. Hallertau derived hops are usually used in place of anything that hallertau would be used in (specifically, German lagers and their ilk). Saaz derived hops are similar to Hallertau derived hops, but slightly different, etc. Many different pedigrees, but if you have some idea of what source or country they come from, you can usually plan accordingly.
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