If you could only brew with 5 hops for life...

[hodge]

1. Falconer's Flight
2. Bramling Cross
3. Northdown
4. Delta
5. Strisselspalt

 

[madbaldman]

-Cascade
-EKG (if I had to pick one hop, this would be it)
-Northern Brewer (I could substitute Cascade for this and free up another hop, but as is, I use it a lot).
-Hallertau (weizens in summer)
-yet to be decided - I'm always looking for something new

 

[Montanaandy]

Amarillo
Columbus
Palisades
Simcoe
Hallertau

 

[pdxal]

I'm biased toward American grown hops:
Centennial
Mt. Hood
Sterling
Willamette
Chinook or Nugget

 

[trigger]

Summit - my #1 favorite hop
Amarillo - approaching perfection
Simcoe - getting there
Sorachi Ace - it's like putting a lemon in your beer without putting a lemon in your beer
Willamette - universal Euro hop

 

[Vance71975]

I was watering my hop garden the other day and thinking about what would happen if I could only brew with what i grew myself. I currently have 5 varieties, Nugget, Chinook, Cascade, Centennial, and Sterling. Thankfully we can use whatever we can get our hands on but....

If you could only brew with 5 varieties of hops for the rest of your life what would you choose? Please put the variety you like best as #1 and so forth.

In this alternate reality, you can drink whatever beer you want, including others homebrew, but no brewing with any other hops (ie: no tradeing hops).

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I'll start.

1. Nugget
2. Simcoe
3. Chinook
4. Willamette
5. Summit

Too easy!

1)Amarillo
2)Fuggle
3)Goldings
4)Chinook
5)Cluster

 

[emjay]

Thumbs up to all the Centennial love. Can't get enough of that tangerine goodness.

1) Centennial
2) Styrian Goldings
3) Strisselspalt
4) Sorachi Ace
5) Either Tettnanger or, to allow for some English brews, UK Fuggles

To each his own, I know summit can have a weird (some say onion) flavor/smell when your beer is green, but after 4-5 weeks of conditioning the orange aroma really starts to shine. It ends up being similar to warrior.

Then why not just use warrior?

 

[Brewsader]

I didn't really realize it until now but in the past two years I believe I have only used three hop varieties (with the exception of one collaboration brew I did with a commercial brewery).

EKG
Amarillo
Nelson Sauvin

I suppose if you add Saaz in there then I would be happy enough to brew with just those 4.... who needs 5

 

[beeber]

Saaz
Hallertau
EKG
Columbus
Amarillo

All the combos of this would leave me wanting for nothing else.

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

No order, but:
Amarillo
Centennial
EKG
Nugget
Challenger

 

[pm5k00]

Then why not just use warrior?

It's similar not exactly the same, I prefer the taste over warrior, I find it to be for lack of a better explanation "more intense" in the orange flavor and aroma. I sub Warrior when Summit isn't available though.

 

[user 70770]

Yikes, variety is the spice of life... only 5 hops... Well, here are my top hops.

1) EKG
2) Cascade
3) Hallertauer
4) Perle
5) Willamette

 

[WilliamWS]

1.Centennial
2.Hallertau
3.EKG
4.Magnum
5.Simcoe

I figure I could brew a decent example of just about anything with these 5 (except maybe pils but I don't do many lagers).

 

[HomeBrewMan]

Cascade
Chinook
Amarillo
Citra
Goldings

 

[944play]

Cascade
Crystal
Chinook
Spalt Select
Magnum

Amarillo is runner-up, followed by Willamette.

 

[robtotten]

Saaz (Czech not us)
Willamette
Amarillo
Simcoe
Nelson Sauvin

 

[EdWort]

Cascade
Warrior
Simcoe
Tettnanger
Perle

With these, I can brew most any of my beers below. I just may have to adjust the amounts.

 

[pm5k00]

Summit - my #1 favorite hop
Amarillo - approaching perfection
Simcoe - getting there
Sorachi Ace - it's like putting a lemon in your beer without putting a lemon in your beer
Willamette - universal Euro hop

Thank you for the summit love, I was starting to feel like the only one.

 

[pm5k00]

Ok a running total so far.

20 Centennial
19 Simcoe
17 EKG
17 Amarillo
16 Saaz
15 Cascade
13 Hallertau
12 Chinook
11 Willamette
7 Columbus
7 Fuggles
5 Northern Brewer
4 Magnum
3 Warrior
3 Citra
3 Nugget
3 Goldings
2 Summit
2 Palisade
2 Glacier
2 Sterling
2 Styrian Golding
2 Nelson Sauvin
2 Tettnanger
2 Sorachi Ace
2 Strisselsplat
2 Challenger
2 Perle
1 Cluster
1 Delta
1 Northdown
1 Brambling Cross
1 Falconers Flight
1 Ahtanum
1 Splat
1 Liberty
1 Mt. Hood
1 Crystal
1 Splat Select

 

[emjay]

Interesting. My absolute favorite that I listed ended up being the most popular, and though I'm a bit surprised at that (I knew it would be popular, but I didn't figure it'd be MOST popular), obviously I can understand why! Centennial is just amazing.

And perhaps even more interesting is that, despite my absolute favorite coming in #1 with 20 votes, EACH of the other 4 varieties I chose to "keep" only have one other person who also chose them (2 votes each).

 

[ChillWill]

Amarillo
Chinook
Simcoe
Citra
EKG

Can make a nice range of things with those.

 

[Piratwolf]

Simcoe
Columbus
Cascade
Hallertau
Nugget

 

[DragonOrta]

Amarillo
Citra
Simcoe
EKG
Hallertau

Who needs Columbus when you can use Simcoe?

 

[alexdagrate]

1) Simcoe
2) Simcoe
3) Simcoe
4) Simcoe
5) Simcoe

Just kidding:
Simcoe and Centennial for all the american style ales (wet, fresh centennial is the BEST!)

After that? Man, I dunno, just pick three fancy Euro hops so I can make a nice Quad.

 

[BrewThruYou]

1. Citra
2. Centennial
3. EKG
4. Simcoe
5. Cascade

I brew a ton of IPAs.

 

[beerloaf]

Cascade
Saaz
Hallertau
Chinook
EKG

 

[permo]

#1. Willamette - for its versatility in almost all ale styles
#2. Columbus - My go to high alpha bittering and has the most unique aroma
#3 Centennial - my favorite flavoring hop for the spicy/citrus character
#4 Cascade - This one to me, is all citrus and an integral hop for american pale and india pale
#5 Chinook - Arrogant Bastard Clones - need I say more?

 

[Bubba]

amarillo
centinell
cascade
chinook
columbus
I love IPA's

 

[dannypo]

Citra
Hallertau Mittlefruh
EKG
Columbus
Challenger

 

[JonK331]

Willamette
Hallertau
Centennial
Rakau
Cascade