Best hop to use in a single hop brew

[moose123]

Gonna brew tomorrow and want to do a single hop beer. I gonna shoot for an abv around 6.5 with a nice malty profile for the fall. Would love thoughts and any recipes people have done that turned out real well!

 

[jonmohno]

I would find out what hop they use in your favorite hopped beer, but personally columbus, amarillo, simco,chinook,not to mention what i cant think of right now. I like most of the german hops too though,but depending on the style somewhat.
I would look up some of your favorite hoppy beers and find out what they use.Thats how it helps to know which ones you like without brewing with them first,to find out the hard way.

 

[starrfish]

Simcoe & Amarillo are good, but I've been wanting try some UK Boadicea and UK Challenger.

UK Boadicea is a pest resistant (aphids) supposed to have a grassy lemon quality

UK Challenger is A mild to moderately intense hop known to be quite spicy. cross breed of Northern brewer & a german variety. Might be my pic for your brew if you can find them.

 

[moose123]

Wow thank you! I love grassy resin hops like simcoe. Some of my favorite ipas are odell brewing double mycenary, Russian rivers blind pig, stone ruination, ska modus.

 

[makomachine]

Single hop and malty cries for some chinook! (With Simcoe a close second for single hop)

 

[The_Professor]

...want to do a single hop beer. I gonna shoot for an abv around 6.5 with a nice malty profile for the fall...

To me, stating that you want a malty profile suggests only a bittering addition, in which case just about any hop could be used.

 

[starrfish]

To me, stating that you want a malty profile suggests only a bittering addition, in which case just about any hop could be used.

definitely no additions later than 30 min into boil (and only a small amount that late in) to keep the malty profile. Careful yeast selection here could be a factor too. (my HBS is no longer carrying wyeast so this is a good exercise for me to try to find white labs equivs)


WLP028 Edinburgh Scottish Ale Yeast (first choice for malty by description as I have used Wyeast Laboratories. Scottish Ale™ 1728 for strong malt profile)
WLP002 English Ale Yeast
WLP005 British Ale Yeast

 

[jonmohno]

+1.5,now thinking of a mellow hop with a malty profile. The single hop threw me off thinking of a single hop ipa. So if you want a malty brew use a good yeast that accentuates your malt with a smooth mild mellow hop then? Depending if you want malty and hoppy

 

[starrfish]

Just about anything goes at the 60 min mark. Northern Brewer hop, Higher AA% = more bang for buck. Or another higher alpha like Eroica- been a long time since I used that one, was popular in the 90s

But I may suggest going with a few extra ounces and go fuggles with malty profile. Soft & earthy hop

 

[The_Professor]

...But I may suggest going with a few extra ounces and go fuggles with malty profile. Soft & earthy hop

I like noble hops for bittering when they are to style. Okay, EKG or Fuggles too.

But I'm not too sure what the OP is looking for with slightly high ABV (@6.5), malty, single hop.

Looking at style guidelines and brewing for fall-maybe oatmeal stout?

 

[jonmohno]

I agree malty usually goes with soft mellow hops and from my short experience alot of those type hops have been german hops being soft mild and mellow.Maybe look into hops used in scottish ales or some english ales?

 

[belmontbrew]

Two of my standby beers are:

-An all East Kent Goldings beer, though it's not very hoppy
-All Cascade, for my golden California Poppy ale

 

[starrfish]

That's where I was going with the fuggles. east kent goldings was another good suggestion for Scottish ale, at over 6% it's in the wee heavy category. EKG used to be one of my favs, but I'm back on a fuggles kick again.

 

[moose123]

Wow so many good ideas! What kind of yeast you guys thinking? I want malty and a good hop bite I like the chinook idea. Should I keep all additions under 30? I will do a 90 min boil. Thanks again.

 

[moose123]

I also think fuggles could be nice as well. **** now I'm just confused

 

[MrMeans]

I am a big cascade fan. I am drinking a single hop cascade amber right now. Its nice and mellow with a sweet malty character to it. Just enough hop to know its there and just enough malt to know its there.

 

[jonmohno]

What kind of beer are you brewing? Alot of what hop your going to use depends on the malt/ and yeast too.So what you gonna do? You gonnna make some beer or somethin? Or what? Ha

 

[belmontbrew]

Listen to the Jamil Show episode with Epic brewing from New Zealand. They do an all-cascade beer with additions from FWH all the way to dry hop.

I've tried the "chuck a few pellets in every few minutes" strategy, from 30 minutes down to flame-out, and have been very happy with the results.

For yeast, you can't go wrong with an English Ale or Cal Ale.

 

[moose123]

I'm not sure what I brewing now! I just had a thought about a nice malty single hop ipa which could be bold more like a pale. I like the cal yeast but I usually get the sulfur/fart smell during fermentation which just messes with me. If I went cascade which I love my original thought was centennial but then all your fine ideas chucked a wrench. I'm gonna sleep on it but keep the confusion coming. Still like the chinook though I will post the recipe while I'm at the homebrew shop tomorrow

 

[The_Professor]

... I'm gonna sleep on it but keep the confusion coming. Still like the chinook though I will post the recipe while I'm at the homebrew shop tomorrow...

lol
...two thumbs up...you plan to make beer...