AntDoctor
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I am getting married in three weeks, and I just now decided I want to serve a homebrewed beer at the reception. We already will have a keg of my sparkling hydromel (session mead), bottles of my blueberry wine at the tables, and a cooler of miscellaneous commercial beers. However, I have two more smaller kegs (1.6 gal and 3 gal), so I was thinking of hopping 1 gal of the sparkling session mead in the smallest keg. And if I'm already using two kegs... why not use them all and brew a beer too??
However, I have so many hops in my chest freezer, I don't want to buy more for this. Can you guys help me craft a quick, simple, fool-proof beer recipe (preferably a hazy IPA, my fiancé's favorite type) using hops I already have? I think I'll need to use a kveik yeast given the +90F temps outside and the speed I need to get this done...
I have LOADS of unopened, relatively fresh hops from these varieties:
However, I have so many hops in my chest freezer, I don't want to buy more for this. Can you guys help me craft a quick, simple, fool-proof beer recipe (preferably a hazy IPA, my fiancé's favorite type) using hops I already have? I think I'll need to use a kveik yeast given the +90F temps outside and the speed I need to get this done...
Hops
I don't really know which hops "go well together" because I usually choose my hop schedule and dosage off existing recipes I find. And I haven't repeated many recipes, so I have lots of half-opened hops or hops I got for free that I haven't tried yet.I have LOADS of unopened, relatively fresh hops from these varieties:
- El dorado
- Idaho 7 (I've never used this variety)
- Idaho Comet (also never used this one)
- Michigan copper
- Galena
- Mackinac (unopened!)
- Centennial
- Magnum
- Nelson sauvin
- Glacier
- Willamette
- I also have a tiny bit of Bru-1 and a few random varieties left over from 1.5+ years ago. (Are they still good??)
Malt
Grain is easier to buy quickly from the brew store in whatever size I need, but I currently have:- Loads of pale malt
- Loads of pils
- Rye
- Cararoma
- Some Munich