100% Cascade hop suggestions?

[660_Memphis]

I just picked some Cascade hops from the student garden at my college and was wondering what options I have for a brew using only these as the hops. It looks as though Pale Ale is the easiest but I would like to do a 10 gallon brew and i might only have 2-3 oz of hops which seems to be cutting it close. I can maybe get another .5-1 oz in a couple of weeks when some of the smaller ones matures if needed. I am also kinda wanting to make my own recipe for these. Here are some example Pale Ales I found, but most require more hops than I have.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/bee-cave-brewery-haus-pale-ale-31793/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/da-yoopers-house-pale-ale-100304/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/15-minute-cascade-pale-ale-210253/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/cascades-orange-pale-ale-84558/

Would it be better to do maybe a 90 min boil to get the most IBU out of my available hops since I don't have enough? Also, I would really like to find something that is a bit heavier and maltier for the winter season like a porter or something, but it looks like most recipes out there call for different hops. What kind of malt profile/ beer style should I be looking for with a 100% Cascade hop? Maybe Belgian Witbeir? Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

 

[Yooper]

Even though you really want 100% cascade, would you be willing to use a high AAU neutral hop variety (like magnum) for bittering? Then you could use your cascades for all of the flavor and aroma additions (and maybe dryhopping, if you have enough).

 

[660_Memphis]

I guess it wouldn't be the end of the world if it wasn't all cascade, I just thought it would be cool to be able to say all the hops came from school. I guess it would be better to say some of them did and it be good than all of them did and it be sub par though

 

[eastoak]

skip the bittering hops and add them all at the end, let it stand for 15-30 min and you'll get bitterness, flavor and aroma. might have some left over for a dry hop too. i've recently started doing this and it's worked out great. my meager cascade harvest prompted me to try this as an experiment and when i did a bit of research found out that crooked stave makes one of their beers this way. the last beer i brewed (yesterday) i added 1 oz of centennial at flame out then started the 30 min timer. at 25 min i added 2 oz of centennial the started chilling at 30 min. sometimes i go 30 - 15 - 5.

 

[660_Memphis]

Would that not result in a very low IBU beer though?

 

[jigtwins]

I make a nice american wheat in 5 gallon batches with only 2 oz of cascade hops. One oz @ fwh, and one @ flameout. makes for a nice citrus aroma and mild bitterness. super simple recipe. 6lbs soft white wheat malt, 4 lbs pale ale malt, and .5 lb c40. mash @ 152 us-05 yeast.

 

[eastoak]

Would that not result in a very low IBU beer though?

not at all. even though beersmith and other brewing software indicate zero IBU for flameout additions you do get plenty of bitterness. i was getting higher than expected bitterness in my pale ale whenever i added large flameout additions (in addition to the 60 minute addition) so i decided to skip the 60 minute and go all flameout hops. my unscientific thinking is that not only will i get the bitterness i want but since the wort is not boiling there are less of the aromatics being boiled off. so far i have 1 beer on tap made this way, a nelson sauvin pale ale, and it has a smooth, solid bitterness. the flavor and aroma are great too. i have 3 other pale ales in fermentors, 1 is crash cooling and the other two are sitting at garage temps after finishing active fermentation. one of the beers fermented with BRY-97, an amarillo pale, and the other with S-04, a centennial blonde.

 

[feinbera]

Only three or four ounces of hops in a 10-gallon batch seems a little light, no matter when you're adding them, unless you're going for something like a pils, where you'll pick up even a small amount of hop flavor and aroma, or a porter, where you're really only using the hops for their bitterness.

 

[660_Memphis]

I figured I should probably try to add as much as I can later in the boil because they don't have the most aromatic smell to begin with. I'm not sure if this is normal for cascade as I have never used leaf hops. They definitely have some taste though. I'm not sure if I have ever had an "American Wheat" but I love Blue Moon and had a "White Wheat" that was on tap at the LHBS the other day that was really good. Maybe I could try a Belgian Wheat with cascade?