rivercity_homebrew
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Stopped at Toppling Goliath over the weekend and had both pseudoSue and Golden Nugget. I absolutely love both. There is already and extensive thread about cloning Sue, but I can't find much on cloning Golden Nugget.
Malt should be pretty easy, the recipe says it is a Golden Promise malt. I will probably stick with something close to the malt bill in the pseudoSue thread- https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/toppling-goliath-pseudosue-can-you-clone-443295/
I'm really not sure what hops to use. The Toppling Goliath comments state that it is not a single hop beer featuring Nugget. They use a variety of 5 different American hops. Below are my thoughts:
1- Obviously one of the hops is Nugget.
2- I'm guessing that they might also use Citra (based on its heavy use in Sue and the "tropical flavors" the website references).
3-Centennial and Cascade seem like logical options as well given availability and cost.
4- I'm not sure if Amarillo is included. They don't seem to use it in any other beers.
5- Other hops they reference in single hop/combination beers include- Galaxy, Warrior, and Mosaic.
As far as hopping schedule- I imagine it is similar to the Sue schedule- all late additions, massive whirlpool and massive dry hop.
Any suggestion are welcome. I have a couple of bottles from my stop at TG. I will post more after I have been able to evaluate some.
Malt should be pretty easy, the recipe says it is a Golden Promise malt. I will probably stick with something close to the malt bill in the pseudoSue thread- https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/toppling-goliath-pseudosue-can-you-clone-443295/
I'm really not sure what hops to use. The Toppling Goliath comments state that it is not a single hop beer featuring Nugget. They use a variety of 5 different American hops. Below are my thoughts:
1- Obviously one of the hops is Nugget.
2- I'm guessing that they might also use Citra (based on its heavy use in Sue and the "tropical flavors" the website references).
3-Centennial and Cascade seem like logical options as well given availability and cost.
4- I'm not sure if Amarillo is included. They don't seem to use it in any other beers.
5- Other hops they reference in single hop/combination beers include- Galaxy, Warrior, and Mosaic.
As far as hopping schedule- I imagine it is similar to the Sue schedule- all late additions, massive whirlpool and massive dry hop.
Any suggestion are welcome. I have a couple of bottles from my stop at TG. I will post more after I have been able to evaluate some.