Single hop - Cascade or Chinook?

I'm trying to decide what to brew next (so far I've done two batches: a red ale and I've got a porter ready to bottle...).

Thinking about a partial mash batch with just Cascade...or just Chinook (whole from a local grower).

Maybe a pale ale?

How should I decide? Anyone have any recipe suggestions?

If you get the whole hops from the local grower, remember that they have to be dried out before you use them.

I've made a Cascade/Two Row APA SMASH before, and it was the first homebrew my Coors-drinking SWMBO liked.

I just did 10lbs Two Row (if you did it with extract, it'd be 7.5lbs pale LME)
1.0 oz Cascade @ 60
0.5 oz Cascade @ 15
0.5 oz Cascade @ 5

Safeale S-05 Yeast

Single hop Columbus!

If you wanna do a straight up pale ale, I would definitely recommend the Cascade. Chinook can be harsh, especially if you overdo it. It works in things like arrogant bastard, but you have to be careful with it, IMO.

^^^I'm a cascade guy - great all-around hop

Could always use cascade for bittering and flavoring, and dry hop with chinook for that wonderful scent.

I agree with unionrdr. If you have the fermenter space I would do a split batch. I recently did a SMaSH with vienna that I split between chinook and centennial hops. Its not finished yet, dry hopped it last night. I can tell you the centennial is tasting a lot better than the chinook at this point. The centennial is very grapefruity/citrusy. I dont remember exactly what the chinook tasted like, i wanna say it was kinda grassy/herbal but still not terrible.

It really depends on what your tastes are, If you like a more citrusy and fruity hop I would go with the cascade.

Thanks everyone, I'm leaning towards Cascade this time around (no extra bucket to split a batch).

How's this sound:

6 lbs light DME
1 lb crystal malt (just happen to have leftover)

whole leaf Cascade hops:

0.5 oz at 60 min
1 oz at 30 min
0.5 oz at 10 min

I also have about a pound of chocolate malt leftover from the last batch - would it be weird to add some, maybe 4-6oz?

I plugged it in to beer calculus (http://beercalculus.hopville.com/recipe) but I'll admit I don't really know how to use it/interpret the results.

becsbrew said:

whole leaf Cascade hops:
0.5 oz at 60 min
1 oz at 30 min
0.5 oz at 10 min

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That's only around 24 IBU... which seems kinda... low.

I'd probably do:
1.5 oz at 60 min
1.0 oz at 30 min
1.0 oz at 10 min
0.5 oz at 5 min

becsbrew said:

I also have about a pound of chocolate malt leftover from the last batch - would it be weird to add some, maybe 4-6oz?

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I'd only go about 2oz.

Do you only have the 2 ozs of cascade? What is the AA%? How hoppy do you want it? For a just an amber/brown ale - what you'll have using some crystal and a couple oz of chocolate, 25 IBUs would be fine. IPA? Need a little more hop - maybe the chinook for bittering, not more than an oz for 60 min. And then layer in the cascade every 10 mins starting at 30 on down to flameout.

I am so tired of cascade in everything. I vote chinook

I would use them both Chinook for bittering and cascade for flavor and aroma.