Might Gon' Brew Sum Pliny T'nite...

[bradsul]

Yeah, Galena is a great base bittering hop for pretty much any beer...at least, that's what the description says in Promash.

I've had great success switching my bittering additions to galena to save some money on hops. It is a very neutral flavour and at ~14% AA you don't need much anyway. For the english IPA I did on sunday I used about 30G (~1oz) for ~60 IBU. I needed only about ~1/3 of the amount compared to bittering with EKG which I had done previously.

 

[PseudoChef]

Pliny has 68 IBUs. They calculated it by gas chromatograph at one of the Washington hop seminars. I hate quoting it for all my references, but this is talked about on the IIPA Jamil show where they go over the Pliny clone.

 

[BitterRat]

I know someone who owns a homebrew store and he's convinced that additions between 30-15 minutes are useless. I'd probably agree...

I couldn't disagree more! There are a number of folks that have made beers with only late hopping and while the bitterness is not huge, it is most definitely there.