Ale with Homegrown Hops

[permo]

I have harvested and dried my 2015 hops. I got 1# fuggles and roughly 3# cascade from my plants this year. I am always used to brewing pale ales, IPA's etc to help showcase my hops but I am looking for something different this year to make with these hops.....I am thinking a pale lager or even a wheat lager? Anybody else have any ideas on how to showcase these hops? Maybe an all fuggles English IPA?

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

I would go ahead and use them late in the boil like a 5 minute addition unless you got them tested and you know the AAs (if they happen to have the way upper limits of the varietal AA% you could end up with a crazy amountof IBUs).

The fuggles could be awesome in the English IPA or a strong ESB. Cascade could make for a good IPL or a wheat pale lager with lots of late hops. I used a bunch of fresh wet cascade for a black IPA that turned out really awesome and goes over well with those that try it.

 

[permo]

Black IPA.......I like where you are going with this. Maybe with some English yeast. Blacken it up up with some black malt added to the sparge possibly

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

I used 1762 with a good chunk of midnight wheat malt. It definitely comes off more like a Belgian Black IPA Stout since it has more body and more chocolate/coffee behind the big citrus hoppy punch.

But, going English is definitely a good plan.

 

[WakeyOz]

Fuggles work really well in a Northern English Brown Ale. Low carbonation really allows the aroma to shine too.

I just used mine from this years harvest in an Oatmeal Stout, Gravity sample i took a couple of days ago was smelling and tasting really nice.