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KeepBrewing
Intermediate Member
Username: Kb7
Post Number: 312
Registered: 05-2002
Posted From: 24.184.80.79
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 12:31 am: | 
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has anyone ever made a lager with northern brewer hop or fuggle hops? |
Paul Erbe
Senior Member
Username: Perbe
Post Number: 1124
Registered: 05-2001
Posted From: 64.233.251.195
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 05:30 pm: |
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According to Hop Union NB is one of the main Alpha varieties in Germany and they make a few Lagers. |
KeepBrewing
Intermediate Member
Username: Kb7
Post Number: 313
Registered: 05-2002
Posted From: 24.184.80.79
| | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 02:54 am: |
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OK I will check out Hop union nb thanks
only what is hop union nb? 
(Message edited by kb7 on June 21, 2008) |
Dave Witt
Senior Member
Username: Davew
Post Number: 1128
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 71.194.189.126
| | Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 03:52 am: |
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I made a Steam beer once that was a lager, with NB.
Hop Union is a hop grower/distributor. NB is short for Northern Brewer. |
KeepBrewing
Intermediate Member
Username: Kb7
Post Number: 314
Registered: 05-2002
Posted From: 24.184.80.79
| | Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 11:45 pm: |
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I guess no one in this chat room has ever made a lager with NB or Fuggles? hummmm |
Graham Cox
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Username: T2driver
Post Number: 1746
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 68.32.253.156
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 01:23 am: |
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"Lager" could mean anything from a Lite American Lager (a style I am growing rather fond of  ) to a Baltic Porter - in other words, weak to strong, straw to almost black. What kind of lager are you thinking of using them in?
Fuggles is an English variety that is typically used in ales, and, as everyone knows, Fuggles taste like dirt.
Northern Brewer is the signature hop in Anchor Steam, the definitive example of the California Common ("steam beer") style. I'm sure many, if not most, of us have made California Commons, as Dave noted above. California Common is a lager, but it is fermented with a special yeast at 60-ish degrees F instead of the more typical 50-ish degrees used for other lager fermentations. So yes, I'm sure most of us have used Northern Brewer in that particular style of lager.
I think NB could be successfully used as the bitter in practically any lager, but for the hoppy styles (e.g. German Pils or Bo-Pils), I think you'd still want to go with a noble or noble-hybrid hop. Certainly not Fuggles. Did I mention that they taste like dirt? |
The Jolly Brewer
Senior Member
Username: Matfink
Post Number: 1962
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 213.83.101.254
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 12:50 pm: |
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Graham doesn't like fuggles.
I say try it. |
Chumley
Senior Member
Username: Chumley
Post Number: 5469
Registered: 02-2003
Posted From: 63.118.227.254
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 05:36 pm: |
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I have use Northern Brewer as a bittering hop in many types of lagers, including pils (german and CAP), bock, o'fest, and dunkel. Can't say I have ever tried them alone in a lager, or as flavor/aroma additions. I would think in a low hopped lager like a helles, dunkel, or bock, they would be okay. |
KeepBrewing
Intermediate Member
Username: Kb7
Post Number: 315
Registered: 05-2002
Posted From: 24.184.80.79
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 - 01:43 am: |
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Chummy, did the lager turn out the way you wanted it with NB?
I found an interesting recipe in extreme brewing that uses NB and Fuggles. Sour cherry ale fermented with ESB yeast.
I guess it would not hurt to make a steam.
I have not experienced dirt with fuggles how ever I do not doubt gram has experienced it with his batch. I found in large amounts it has a type of tobacco taste in it. Not ash tray
tobacco
I think I am thinking like chumley a darker ale like lager |
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