Amber Ale Hop Profile

[hopbrad]

I am brewing an Amber tonight, extract. boiling 9 gallons of water for an 8 gallon recipe.
OG around 1.058.

I would like to use Nugget and Willamette as i have a lb of each.
I was thinking this:
.75 oz nugget @ 60
.75 oz nugget @ 30
1 oz willamette @ 15
1 oz willamette @ 5

would it be a good idea to add some nugget into the flavor/aroma timeframe, say .5 oz somewhere in the 5-15min addition or will it overpower the willamette?

i have never used either of these hops so suggestions would be great.

Thanks

 

[hopbrad]

alpha for the nugget - 12.8%, willamette - 4.2%

 

[terrapinj]

i brewed an amber some months back with nugget and palisade and enjoyed the flavor contribution of the nugget - i'm sure it would work well with the willamette as well

 

[Hello]

I'm not super familiar with nugget but based on the alpha, I say you could probably get away with .5 oz and nothing more so long as you maintain your 1 oz at 15 and 1 oz at 5 of willamette.

 

[hopbrad]

i went with the extra .5 oz addition of nugget at 10. ill post updates when its done.

 

[hopbrad]

update. i get a earthy/fruit from it, almost a rootbeer type of flavor. its interesting. not my favorite but not bad to change it up.

i brewed a 4 gal batch with .75oz of nugget @ 60 and 3 oz Styrian Goldings as flavor/aroma(the local brewery sold me 10 lbs of it for cheap) - 1oz @ 15, 1oz @ 10 and 1oz @5. more of a hoppy Amber, 1.062 SG. used s-05 again. bottling this weekend. I will update in a few weeks.

 

[Xpertskir]

Here is my house amber ale, everyone who has tasted it, even non craft beer people like it


Batch Size (fermenter): 11.00 gal Brewer:
Boil Size: 13.61 gal Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: Pot and Cooler (10 Gal/37.8 L) - All Grain
End of Boil Volume 12.48 gal Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 10.25 gal Est Mash Efficiency 81.8 %
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Taste Rating(out of 50): 30.0
Taste Notes:
Ingredients


Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
14 lbs 8.0 oz Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 66.0 %
4 lbs 12.8 oz 3.25 (9.0 SRM) Grain 2 21.9 %
1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 3 4.6 %
1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (120.0 SRM) Grain 4 4.6 %
10.6 oz Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM) Grain 5 3.0 %
1.90 oz Willamette [5.50 %] - First Wort 60.0 min Hop 6 18.5 IBUs
1.50 oz Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 7 31.4 IBUs
2.50 oz Willamette [5.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 8 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Nugget [13.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 9 0.0 IBUs
2.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 ml] Yeast 10 -
5.00 oz Mt. Hood [6.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 11 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Nugget [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 12 0.0 IBUs