What to brew to use up these hops?

[Zephyr259]

I've got maybe 2 brews left before I take a break over the summer and figure it's best to use up my open packs of hops rather than open some of the new ones.

I currently have 25g each of Galaxy, Glacier and Columbus and 125g of Styrian Goldings. I've also got some Admiral for bittering but I always have some of that open so not too fussed about it. The Columbus and Goldings have been open 6 months, the rest were opened within the last 2-3 months, kept in the freezer.

What would you brew with this? I was leaning towards an ale and a lager so my idea had been a bitter with admiral and glacier then a lager with the Goldings but then I'm not sure what to do with the galaxy.

I've got malt and yeast to do most things.

Thanks.

 

[chuffer]

The Columbus (for bittering) and galaxy (for flavour and aroma) should make a nice fruity APA / IPA

 

[Clint]

I'd mix it up and do a bitter with the Columbus and galaxy...

 

[Zephyr259]

Might mix the Columbus and Galaxy and use them both late, 50g total over the last 10 - 15 mins should be good in 15 - 23L. I had been thinking of bittering with Columbus then using the galaxy and glacier together late but was worried the galaxy would over power the glacier.

 

[Zephyr259]

Right, current plan is to make an American style pale/amber, the "Make your best..." articles suggest using and ounce each of 3 different hops at 20, 10 and 0 minutes, so I'm thinking 25g Columbus at 20 min, 25g Glacier at 10 min and 25g Galaxy at 0 min. In a 1.045 wort that gets me 30 IBU which make the specs very similar to my recent Nelson/Galaxy pale which is very tasty.

I've been trying to use up 4kg of dark munich which was sent crushed instead of whole; 53% pale, 41% munich, 6% medium crystal gets me to 19 ebc, without the crystal it's 14 so more of an actual pale ale, so just trying to decide if the crystal is a good plan now.

 

[Zephyr259]

Well this beer turned out great. I had less munich than i remembered so used 500g of Imperial malt in addition to the crystal and it's a nice pale amber colour with a very fresh and fruity hop flavour. It got 2 weeks fermenting then 1 week cold as I got ill and lazy, been in the bottle about 9 days. Not quite fully carbed but at a level I could have deliberately aimed for and very pleasant to drink. I'm going to experiment more with these fruitier hops from now on as that's 2 brews where they've been very tasty if the IBUs are kept to around 30 or so.