JSGA with POR hops

[SuperBroo]

Hi All,

I was thinking as part of my learning curve, of changing the bittering hops to Pride of Ringwood in Dr Smurtos JSGA AG clone recipe.

Please lket me know if you think it will be a negative thing, but I thought it would be a good start to learning about the differenmt hop varieties, and I dont mind a bit of the POR twang.

I was thinking of something like this...

22.5 Litre brew.
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2.6 Kg Pale malt 2 row.
0.9 Kg Wheat Malt.
0.4 Kg Munich Malt.
0.25 Kg Caramalt (Crystal).
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25 g Pride of Ringwood hops, 60 mins.
15 g Amarillo 15 mins.
15 g Amarillo 0 mins.
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Yeast Safale US 05.


Any thoughts appreciated

Cheers,
Chris

[Chris]

Well, one thing about PoR is that it is good for bittering.

You shouldn't have any problems in that regard. You won't get much flavour at 60mins
though, if that is what you are looking for.

[drsmurto]

As Chris pointed out you wont notice a huge difference with that change.

JSGA is apparently bittered with Super Pride but i digress.

I use the golden ale grist for single hop beers to get an idea of what they do aroma and flavour wise.

I am about to do a run of them using my homegrown hops (chinook, cascade, goldings, POR and Victoria)

[SuperBroo]

Cool,
So I'll go for say 40 grams 90 minutes then ?

or not that simple ?

Cheers...

[drsmurto]

Not that simple at all.

What i normally do is add 1.5g/L at flameout at 1-1.5g/L at 20 mins then adjust the 60 min bittering addition to hit the desired total IBU.

That way the amount of flavour and aroma hops stays the same for each of the hop and the total IBU stays the same.

I had beers with POR used for flavour and aroma and if the POR is fresh then its a nice beer.

Stick with the neutral US05 yeast so you don't add any yeast derived esters and it produces a clean, easy drinking ale.