ploppythesausage
Well-Known Member
Hiya gang!
I'm getting a recipe together for making a smoked beer. 100% beech smoked malt for the base, with a wee bit crystal, choc and roast to head towards the stout dept. Just wondering what hops to use.
I was just going to go for a classic hop, just enough to bitter and let the smoke and other malts dominate but I'm now thinking, why settle for just bitter? I live in the UK - I've had enough of hops used solely for bittering to last a lifetime.
This will be a malty brew, a smokey full-on roasty brew too, but i don't want the hops to take only a balancing back-seat role.
Reviews of the Stillwater/Mikkeller Rauchstar, with the piney hop descriptions, sounds quite good. Any idea what these hops might be?
Or any other suggestions?
I'm getting a recipe together for making a smoked beer. 100% beech smoked malt for the base, with a wee bit crystal, choc and roast to head towards the stout dept. Just wondering what hops to use.
I was just going to go for a classic hop, just enough to bitter and let the smoke and other malts dominate but I'm now thinking, why settle for just bitter? I live in the UK - I've had enough of hops used solely for bittering to last a lifetime.
This will be a malty brew, a smokey full-on roasty brew too, but i don't want the hops to take only a balancing back-seat role.
Reviews of the Stillwater/Mikkeller Rauchstar, with the piney hop descriptions, sounds quite good. Any idea what these hops might be?
Or any other suggestions?
