Hop recommendation for Amber Ale?

[DJL531]

Making a simple amber ale from LME and a little Munich and wheat steeped in. Going to use Safale S-04. Looking to keep it about 25 ibu and recipe calculates out to be about 5.5% abv.

What do you recommend?

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

Hop suggestions from two 5.5% 30 IBU amber ales I've brewed recently:

• Cascade & Fuggle: see Broken Leg House Amber recipe here at HBT.
• Liberty: see Shell's Firebrick recipe (brewed with ale yeast) at Beer & Wine Journal.

 

[TheMadKing]

You can't go wrong with fresh cascade. It is THE hop to use in an American amber, and a small dry hop is a nice touch too

I also like Centennial or Chinook as backup options

 

[DJL531]

Heck that sounds great. I have Centennial in whole cone and pellets and Chinook in pellets. I think I used all my Cascade earlier in the year, but had enough C hops to go around for now. I also have a little Simcoe left and had someone call it Cascade on steroids. Not sure how if that is accurate, but I've only used SImcoe in dry hop so far.

 

[tennesseean_87]

I like Chinook.

 

[Miraculix]

I love a 50/50 mix of Chinook and Simcoe

It's my favourite American hop combo.

 

[enkamania]

Centennial

 

[Steveruch]

I brewed an amber with summit, simcoe, and saphir that turned out pretty good.

 

[Yooper]

One of my favorites is a combo of willamette and cascade. I did that a number of years ago, trying to clone Bell's Amber, and the combo is wonderful.

 

[walker111]

2 weeks ago brewed caramel amber ale using chinook and willamette. Love this beer and hop combo.

 

[Oleson M.D.]

Cascade.

 

[soccerdad]

I love a 50/50 mix of Chinook and Simcoe

It's my favourite American hop combo.

I called a beer Chimcoe a few years ago. It was good. Hoppy pale ale.

 

[anteater8]

You can't go wrong with fresh cascade. It is THE hop to use in an American amber, and a small dry hop is a nice touch too

I also like Centennial or Chinook as backup options

Agree with this. My amber ale is 50/50 cascade/centennial and its won a gold medal.

 

[Spikybits]

I second the Cascade and Centennial - Bitter with Centennial and then Cascade all the way!

 

[bwible]

2 weeks ago brewed caramel amber ale using chinook and willamette. Love this beer and hop combo.

I think Willamette is an underappreciated hop

 

[jdauria]

I have an Amber Ale that uses Galaxy, Amarillo and Centennial. It won a local brewery's comp a few years back and I got to brew it there a few times and then they upscaled it at another brewery to can. Basically Amarillo FWH, Amarillo and Galaxy at 5 minutes, Galaxy in Whirlpool and Centennial dry hopped. At the brewery they moved the Galaxy to dry hop with the Centennial.

 

[Steveruch]

I think Willamette is an underappreciated hop

I'm currently drinking an American wheat beer hopped with willammette.

 

[ssgearhart]

If you want to go a little British, I once won the British Brown Ale category at a competition with a beer that had East Kent Goldings and Challenger.

 

[smata67]

From the Joy of Brewing, Charlie Pap is using cascade for bittering and either willamette or us golding for flavor.