Hops for American Wheat

[El Pistolero]

I'm fixing to brew an American Wheat, planning on using hallertau for the bittering hops. I wasn't gonna use any aroma or flavor hops, but I was thinking a bit of citrus might be nice. I've got some cascade, centennial, chinnok, fuggles, and EKG...any suggestions for flavor or aroma hops? TIA.

 

[Genghis77]

EKG is a favorite of mine for aroma.

 

[Dude]

I'm fixing to brew an American Wheat, planning on using hallertau for the bittering hops. I wasn't gonna use any aroma or flavor hops, but I was thinking a bit of citrus might be nice. I've got some cascade, centennial, chinnok, fuggles, and EKG...any suggestions for flavor or aroma hops? TIA.

I'm getting ready to do one with Glacier, but before I had those I considered using cascade. With a wheat I wouldn't venture too far away from using the norms, hallertauer or something similar.
Although the reason why I considered using cascade was to add a citrusy note.

 

[El Pistolero]

Although the reason why I considered using cascade was to add a citrusy note.

That's kind of what I was thinking...how much you figure for just a hint of citrus?

 

[Dude]

That's kind of what I was thinking...how much you figure for just a hint of citrus?

When I was designing an American wheat recipe (just recently, the honey wheat one) I read the excerpt from Ray Daniel's book to stay around a .35-.45 BU:GU ratio, which gives you the leeway to use between .5 and .75 ounces in 3 additions, like :60, :20, and :05, assuming you would do ALL cascade hops.

If you are just going to do cascade as an aroma addition, I'd use at least .5 to get a good citrus aroma.

 

[2pugbrews]

I did an "Affengeil" Wheat which called for the zest of one lemon the last 5 minutes of the boil. Had an Odell's Easy Street Wheat eating out tonight and felt that my Wheat was better.

 

[GCGBrewing]

Going to give a go at an Imperial Pineapple Wheat with the following:

2.75lbs Extra Light Dry Extract
2lbs Wheat Extract
3lbs Wheat Extract (30 min)
12oz Carafoam
12oz Crystal 40L
6oz Munich 10L
.9oz Centennial (60 min)
.75oz Cascade (5 min)

4lbs Crushed Pineapple (secondary)

OG 1.072
32IBUs
Color: 10.3SRM
ABV 7.1%

This is a memorial beer for my father-in-law who passed away a few weeks ago. Wheat for the time he was stationed in the Midwest (and a son who played basketball at Oklahoma), Pineapple for the annual trips they took to Hawaii and the PNW hops for where he spent his retirement years.