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I'm and ale/IPA and a wheat beer fan. I want to brew this week or early next but not sure what to brew. I have a bit of wheat malt but will definitely need to make a grain run to the HBS. Here's what I have in the freezer as far as hops go:

Magnum
Hallertau
Columbus
Centennial
Chinook
Amarillo
Warrior (1/2 oz)
Sterling (1/2 oz)
Saaz

Any great ideas, clones or otherwise that I can pull off with this stock?

You could do one of Jamil's American Pale Ales...

http://www.beerdujour.com/Recipes/Jamil ... e_Ale.html

You'll just have to use additional centennial in place of cascade.

The saaz would go well in an American Wheat...ala Bells Oberon

Might take a swing at Oberon.
The one recipe I found said to try and culture the yeast from a bottle of Oberon from early in the brewing season...Second choice was 1272 Amer. Ale. I've never harvested before...Difficult? Too late in the summer to harvest?

I've never harvested either, but there are plenty of threads out there on the subject. It doesn't seem very difficult. As far the freshness of the Oberon, you should be just fine. Bells runs it through October, so it's actually not that late in the season. Everything I've read suggests Bells uses the same strain of yeast for just about all their beers (excluding lagers, of course) so you should be able to get a successful harvest from anything that isn't over the top on ABV (e.g. Expedition Stout)

Good luck!

Brew multiple beers

mthhurley wrote:I'm and ale/IPA and a wheat beer fan. I want to brew this week or early next but not sure what to brew. I have a bit of wheat malt but will definitely need to make a grain run to the HBS. Here's what I have in the freezer as far as hops go:

Magnum
Hallertau
Sterling (1/2 oz)
Saaz

Any great ideas, clones or otherwise that I can pull off with this stock?

Use 1/2 sterling to bitter a weizen
5# Pils
5# Wheat malt

Remaining german hops, brew a saison: I'm assuming german magnum. Don't use it for aroma if yakima magnum

7# Pils
2.5# Torrified/flaked Wheat
2.5# Munich
1.5# Sugar
1/4 oz magnum to bitter
1oz Hallertau 15 min
3/4 oz magnum 5 min
1 oz saaz flameout

OG: 1.065ish (FG should be below 10), IBUs should be 27-30.

mthhurley wrote:I'm and ale/IPA

Columbus
Centennial
Chinook
Amarillo
Warrior (1/2 oz)

Any great ideas, clones or otherwise that I can pull off with this stock?

Big American Pale Ale

9# 2-row
1# Crystal (I prefer a blend of dark and light for more character, but 40 or 60 would be good for a single color)
1# Munich
1# Wheat malt
Chinook 20 min
Columbus 10 min
Amarillo 5 min
Centennial and Warrior Flame out

Should be around 1.055, bitter to about 30-35 IBUs. Chinook offers a rough bitterness and will provide the majority of you're bittering, so you don't need to go as high (~ 5 IBU less)

I'm gonna do both the Oberon and Jamil's ale. I've got all the fixins for both now.

Off to research harvesting!

Thanks all!