Admiral Hops

[Joetp]

Hey everyone!

Been looking into British hops recently and I see Admiral is one of the highest AA British hops and seems to almost have similar descriptors as some of the US/New World hops.

I wondered if anyone has used it to success? I'm tempted to try a SMASH with it.

Cheers!

 

[Stu's Brews]

Hey everyone!

Been looking into British hops recently and I see Admiral is one of the highest AA British hops and seems to almost have similar descriptors as some of the US/New World hops.

I wondered if anyone has used it to success? I'm tempted to try a SMASH with it.

Cheers!

I've used it a fair bit, mostly at various stages in the boil and really like it. You definitely get some orange / marmalade character from it.

Hook Norton do a single-hopped Admiral IPA called 'Flagship' that is worth trying if you want to see how it might come out.

 

[The Baron]

I have used it as a single hop in Bitters/ales very underated hop. Similar to Stu taste wise just use it later if you do not like it too bitter as that drowns the flavour of the hops

 

[MrRook]

I was happy with the results of brewing a strong bitter with it to bitter and progress hops to finish.

 

[Birdsnestbrewery]

Just noticed this thread. I use Admiral for bittering, as you say high AA makes it economical for that purpose. I've used it with good results on golden ale and bitter. I have never used it in a single-hop beer though.

 

[Cwrw666]

I brewed a pale ale smash with it once. Found it quite unpleasant when young but it mellowed out after a few weeks and was quite good then.

 

[Joetp]

Interesting! I ended up brewing an English pale ale with it a couple of weeks ago - I found the bitterness quite tame actually, but I used Admiral for bittering/hotside and then did a whirlpool and decent dry hop with Olicana. It's quite nice, but I'm not sure how much of it is the Olicana or the Admiral.

I do have a decent amount of Admiral left, so I may do some further experimentation with it. I found there's a lot of hype around Olicana being like a US hop - it is quite fruity, but there's definitely the classic British earthiness as well. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing though!