I'm brewing the lady liberty ale from John j palmers book for my first all grain batch. I have 1 oz of williamette and 1 and a half oz centennial left over from a previous batch. I'm wondering if i can substitute for the oz and a half of cascade and half oz of northern brewer the recipe calls for. I'm on my way to my local homebrew and can pick up any other extra hops if necessary. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
First all grain hops question
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You could but it will be a different beer. Centennial and cascade are similar in flavor profile but centennial has higher levels of alpha acids which will provide more bittering. If you want to makes the beer in the book go buy the prescribed hops. If you want to make a beer that will probably be good use what you have.
Thanks for your quick response. We don't wish to make the lady liberty exactly we are just using it as a guideline for the grains since this Is our first all grain. We'd also like to incorporate the hops we already have. Any advice on what we can do for optimal taste with the existing hops and any additional hops
dudebrews said:
The cascade will impart the citrus and grapefruit flavors/aromas and the northern brewer provides earthy/pine notes. Centennial will provide some citrus as a "c" hop and williamette is always a good bitter hop. You can use these as subs but the overall hop profile will be different than the recipe intended.
If you don't mind losing the overall citrus profile then go ahead and sub but if you really want that citrus grapefruit aroma and earthy feel then pick up the recipe hops.
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