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I'm planning my first lager for tomorrow. Right now I am thinking of the Dortmunder Export from BCS, though I am open to suggestions. The recipe is 8.5#pilsner, 4#munich, 2oz melanoidin, hallertau for all hops. I have a little mittelfruh, which I thought I would use for flavor and aroma. For bittering I have cluster, perle, aramis or a bunch of American hops. What would you do?
I also love some modern craft lagers, I could be swayed.

Okay, I found a recipe for Brooklyn Lager, and I didn't find any examples of Dortmunder to taste. So now I'm looking to sub some other hops. Brooklyn calls for Willamette, Vanguard and Saphir, of which I have none. I have Fuggles for the Willamette, and Mittelfruh for the Saphir.

Aramis would be good in one of those I think, but you would need to be careful to avoid over bittering it if your Armais are as potent as the stuff I had. But in the small amount you need, any flavor it brings should be mild and blend nicely with the Mittelfruh.

Fuggles, although I love, I'd be careful with as it could become somewhat predominant. It's not as delicate as Willamette and even as a bittering addition the flavor will come through, and considering you would need to use a lot more then the Armis, then it's even more likely.

Search for a Great Lakes Dortmunder recipe to see what hops are used, it is a very good Dortmunder.

Thanks guys. Steve, I think I'll make the Dortmunder sometime after I can try one, though it looks good.
Mash, the Brooklyn recipe call for 9.6# two row, 14oz Munich, 11oz C60. The Willamette is bittering, I think I can will use Perle instead, adjusting for IBU. The flavor and aroma would be just Cascade and Mittelfruh, excluding the Saphir and Vanguard. What do you think?

FWIW, Great Lakes Dortmunder is bittered with Cascade and finished with Mt. Hood. It's an awesome beer.

I don't think Cascade should be noticeable as grapefruit in such a beer (it is not in the Great Lakes), so I would not use it as a finishing hop, or at the very least be cautious with it, unless you want to be a rebel.

Mittelfruh is good equivelant for Mt. Hood.

Thanks. I went with the Brooklyn Lager Recipe, provided in their blog. They use Cascade. I still want to brew a Dortmunder, but I want to try a good example first.
I brewed this today, using Perle for bittering, Mittelfruh and Cascade for flavor and aroma. I'll let you know how it works out.

Drinking this beer now, it's good. It took a while to "lager" in the kegerator.