Analyzing WLP002 Over 25 Batches

I went on a good stretch last year and into this year of using WLP002, a solid English strain, in almost every hop forward beer I made. I’m pretty sure I started using the strain after hearing that Firestone Walker used WLP002 in all their hoppy beers during a...

What is the Most Neutral Hop?

I thought it would be interesting to look at the data I have for 60 hops from the 2014 hop crop to try to determine which hop is the most neutral. To do this I used only the hop oils information (B-Pinene, Linalool, Myrcene, Caryophyllene, etc.) ignoring the alpha and...

2014 Hop Harvest Database

Click each hop link for more detailed information on hop oil and acid content and rankings. Error You are trying to load a table of an unknown type. Probably you did not activate the addon which is required to use this table...

Analysis of the Past Decade of NHC American IPA Winners

Here is a statistically driven recipe formulated from the data in this post. Data: NHC and Here for 2014 Recipe Brewing Process Averages   87.7% – Kegged their winning IPA recipes (3 didn’t specify) This correlation could explain why so many are...

Hop Usages in Commercial Beers Correlated to Beer Scores

Is there a connection between a beers hop build and how the beer is ultimately rated by the masses? Is there a consensus favorite hop being used? Is there a consensus least favorite hop being used? To attempt to find out I used the hop recipe data collected by Michael...