Base hops

[Immocles]

I use warrior to bitter my pale ales. Ive also used palisade with some nice success since I somehow acquired a lot of it.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I double checked. Magnum is £2.40 for 100g (and is the cheapest hops they do), and they don't even supply Admiral

Could just be a temporary thing, last year's heatwave cut yields by up to 30% and merchants fill their contracts with the big brewers first which can mean availability for homebrewers gets a bit spotty. But those prices sound like a "do a few varieties cheaply" kind of place, rather than the full range offered by the likes of BrewUK and Malt Miller.

Admiral is nice, some people like it for late additions too, it's got a bit of an orangey thing going on although it's not strong.

If you're doing extract then using alpha extract as well will knock 45 minutes off your brewday...

 

[Kharnynb]

I Used to use Magnum a lot for bittering, but nowadays I prefer to just use up the hops that I've bought for late additions.

It does depend how they sell things, over here, 30 gram packs are almost 60% cost of a 100 gram pack, so I don't see the point in buying small packs or having 20 odd packs with a bit of some hop.

As for smash, my favourite recipe is:
5 kg of vienna (viking malt in my area, cheap and good)
100 g of whatever hop you want to try, spread over 60, 20 and 5 minute additions to get about 25 ibu's
1 pack of danstar Nottingham, ferment at 20 degrees Celcius
Tune for your system to make about 22 liters of beer.