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Columbus
Amarillo
Crystal
Willamette
Hallertau Mittelfrueh

These can be used anywhere in the boil or dryhop with great results for a variety of styles.
 
Hummm???? So many good "Dual" use Hops...

Cascade
Fuggles
Kent Golding
Tettnag
Challengerr (maybe)
 
Magnum for bittering: very clean
Cascade for mid to late hop additions and dry hop
Centennial for anything IPA/pale
Saaz for anything European
Citra for dry hopping summer beers
 
Centennial - some of the highest rated IPA's use only centennial for flavor/aroma/dryhop
East Kent Golding - great English hop found in a lot of English styles
Hallertau Mittelfrueh - good for subtle lagers and big hoppy beers as well
Amarillo - great flavor/aroma/dryhop
Columbus - good bittering hop, mixes well with other hops in late additions as well
 
Columbus and Cascade for American ales
Golding for English ales
Hallertau and Saaz for Lagers
 
Magnum- can bitter ANY style of beer from English, German, US, Belgian, etc.

Willamette- good for British beers and US beers as well.

Simcoe- it works as bittering and flavor or aroma.

Hallertauer- for anything except maybe hoppy US beers

Amarillo- just because I love it in any US style beer.
 
I try to keep a few pounds of;
Simcoe
Amarillo
Cascade
Citra
Columbus

but have a fare amount of Apollo, Perle, Hallertau Hersbrucker, Zythos, Magnum and warrior
 
Magnum- can bitter ANY style of beer from English, German, US, Belgian, etc.

Willamette- good for British beers and US beers as well.

Simcoe- it works as bittering and flavor or aroma.

Hallertauer- for anything except maybe hoppy US beers

Amarillo- just because I love it in any US style beer.

See, Magnum is one dimensional. It has very little to no flavor or aroma and I don't think it can be used everywhere in the boil with success. It's a one note/neutral bittering hop; not what comes to mind when I hear the word "versatile". -- Simcoe is great for American styles, but not as versatile as Amarillo would be in say a hybrid Saison or a non-American beer that requires some bright fruity/floral citrus (that also doesn't completely overpower and bash you over the head like Citra). -- I bittered a DIPA with Hallertauer. Came out great. All those grassy notes were gone by the end of the boil. And as you know, you can use it for pilseners, quads, hefes, you name it. It made one of the better Sam Adams Latitude Single Hop Series IPAs in my opinion.
 
magnum - IMO it is the best all around bittering hop there is
cascade - can be used anywhere in the boil and makes a great flavor-dry hop for amercan pale ales..
willamette - heck, I have even used this in a kolsch and it was fantastic
columbus - great bittering hop, great aroma hop, great dry hop. IPA just isn't ipa without columbus dry hop
Glacier - works nicely in belgian and english ales, very "noble"
 
shoot, I want Northern Brewer as my super sub. Can be used at any point in the boil and in ANY cind of brew.
 
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