Dortmunder Gold

[GLish830]

I was wanting to try to clone Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold. I see from their website that they use Mt Hood and Casacade. If anybody is familiar with this lager, maybe share your thoughts on when to casacade and how much? I have only been brewing for a month so I am not familiar with Cascade as a lager hop. Its 30 IBUs at 5.8%
Thanks

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Are there "lager hops" and "ale hops"?

 

[marc1]

I was wanting to try to clone Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold. I see from their website that they use Mt Hood and Casacade. If anybody is familiar with this lager, maybe share your thoughts on when to casacade and how much? I have only been brewing for a month so I am not familiar with Cascade as a lager hop. Its 30 IBUs at 5.8%
Thanks

Dortmunder gold doesn't taste citrusy to me, so I'd use the cascade for bittering, and put a little Mt hood at 20 minutes or so.

 

[jdauria]

From BYO...https://byo.com/recipe/dort-the-export/ It's an attempt at Great Lakes version.

 

[friarsmith]

FWIW, on the GL theme, I’ve brewed the AHA’s Edmund Fitz Porter clone 5 times now and it is crazy good. Spot on to the original. Always in the winter rotation.

 

[Dade0]

I'm sure it is a great beer. But I would try it using Noble hops like Tettnang and/or Hallertau.

 

[dmtaylor]

If they really do use Cascade, it must be the source of the 30 IBU bittering because nobody seems to be able to taste it.