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I'm trying to develope a Caramel Corn ESB. Have heard of popcorn pilsners made with real popcorn in the mash so I decided to try this with caramelized brown sugar. I'm planning a basic bitter recipe but replacing 500g of marris otter with popcorn. My big question here is how much hops? I don't want to overpower the delicate flavour of the popcorn and caramel but want it to be a "bitter". I bought 60g fuggles for bittering and 30g of EKG for flavouring. (5gallon batch) Wondering now if I should scale those back some. Any ideas?

Need ibu numbers.

Looks like I need to finally give in and get brewing software.

You can do it by hand, but you should be doing some kind of calculation, as opposed to just weight.

So do I need the alpha acid %? I didn't write them down.

you do. but you can get a good handle on it just by using standard values (like probably 4-6 % for both of them, see here: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/101/hops" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ) so if you use something in the middle of the range (4.5-5%), it will get you ballpark. it's not as important for some styles (getting 40 ibu instead of 25 in a bitter will make a difference, but it would be drinkable either way, just the balance could be off). something to consider next time you buy hops.

I found it really helpful to learn how to do the ibu calcs by hand before using brewing software. It really increased my understanding.