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I harvested about 1.5 oz (weight after drying) of Cascade and the same with Willamette. I was my first year growing hops and I was wanting to do a AG brew with just those so I can see how I did. Anybody know a good base beer I could start with to use these hops so I can taste them?
I understand I probably have to find a bittering hop to add with my home grown hops beacuse mine are probably best used as flavor or aroma additions. I'm just concerened that my first year home grown hops will get masked by the bittering hop that I use. Anybody have a thought about a bittering hop I can put with my likely low AA homegrown hops so their will be no mistaking that it's my hops showing through and not remnats of the bittering hop that didn't boil out?
Thanks in advance.

Dry hop with them. In my book A good APA will always have cascade or willamette dry hopping. Or (correct me if I'm wrong) Rogue Shakespeare Stout and Brutal Bitter used to use cascade and Willamette hops before Revolution came around....

Do you have anymore of those Willamette and Cascade hops you can pull from the vine and dry? I was thinking if you have more to use you could certainly do one batch where you solely bitter, flavor and aroma hop all with Willamette and do another batch where you do the same thing with the Cascade. It would be a lot easier to pick out the flavors of each hop variety if that was the only hop you had in the recipe.

Also you can make a cup of hop tea with each of the hops and just make notes on the bitterness, flavor and aroma.