Can a Once-Forgotten (and Lost) Lager Yeast Be a Good India Pale Lager (IPL) Strain? Tum 35 was a popular lager strain until the 1950’s until it virtually went extinct. Resurrected in 2019, the strain shows promise as a soft, neutral, and low-sulfur...
I was fortunate to be invited to Belo Horizonte, Brazil to participate in the 3rd International Beer and Culture Festival (FICC). Among the over 30,000 attendees over two days is a significant number of Brazilian breweries that pour their beer at the event. As part of...
Hop Replacement Calculator Updated: 12/10/15 You might also find my Hop Oils Calculator helpful. About the Calculator How the calculator works There is no shortage of hop substitution recommendation charts online, so why create another one? I wanted to take a more...
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...
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...
When updating the hop oils calculator for 2014, I learned a lot about hops while I pestered staff at YCH HOPS for data and quizzed them on how they test their hops and put together their blends. Thankfully, they were super cool and answered all my questions and...
