Hop questions ?

Well, chinook and cascade hops aren't all that similar- but they go great together in IPAs and APAs. If you're doing something that needs a strong chinook flavor, like an Arrogant Bastard clone, the cascade hops won't make the same beer. But if you're making a solid IPA, you can use the cascades in place of some of the chinook hops.

The thing to be careful with is the amount of bittering in the 60 minute addition. Usually, cascade hops are a lot lower in AAUs than chinook, so you need more of them to get the same amount of bittering (IBUs).

What's the rest of the recipe like, and what are you trying to achieve with this beer? That can help us point you to a good substitute schedule for the hops.

 

Well, don't worry, cascade is as good as any sub. There really isn't any sub for chinook- it's got a piney resiny citrus that no other hop can match.

What you could do is get a different bittering hop. The cascades would be ok, but you'd probably have to use all three ounces at 60 minutes to get the same as 1.5 ounces of chinook at 60 minutes, depending on the AAUs. I'd probably just get a neutral but high alpha bittering hop- warrior, nugget, galena, magnum- and then use the chinook at 15 and 1 minute, although that's still a bit light on the hops.

I love cascade with chinook, so if you're not too tied up with it being an AB clone, you could do something like this:

Warrior (or whatever) 60 minutes, using the same AAU% as your chinook to get the amount- probably about 1.25-1.5 oz
Chinook 1 oz 15 minutes
Cascade 1 oz 10 minutes
Chinook 1 oz 5 minutes
Cascade 1 oz 0 minutes
Dryhop with cascades, unless you can score more chinook by then