{"id":11153,"date":"2013-03-20T13:59:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/?p=11153"},"modified":"2013-03-20T13:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:59:36","slug":"hops-link-o-rama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/hops-link-o-rama\/","title":{"rendered":"Hops link-o-rama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Seitz<\/a>This is happening Saturday and I won’t be there. Who is scheduling my life? Wait, by the time the first beer is poured Saturday at the Urban Chestnut Brewing Hopfenfest<\/a> I will have already done Saturdays at the Kernel<\/a>, seen Helen Mirren in The Audience<\/a> and, the time difference being what it is, be settling in for a pint of something on cask.<\/p>\n

As greedy as it might be I’ll still pause a moment and wish somebody could put a glass of Seitz Farms Terroir Lager<\/em> in front of me. Florian Seitz, who I have visited at the family farm in the heart of Bavaria’s Halltertau hop growing region, will in St. Louis to watch drinkers try a beer made with his hops. He doesn’t get to do that very often. “As a grower you are proud when you see what happens with your hops, when the product made from your own product is good,” he said when I was at the farm. <\/p>\n

I’d like to see the look on his face Saturday.<\/p>\n

And while we’re talking hops:<\/p>\n

* More on how opinion has changed about what makes for good hop aroma<\/a> (in some cases, of course) from Ed Wray.<\/p>\n

Descriptions of new varieties used to be accompanied by notes on what percentage of them you could use before the flavour became unacceptable, and I once spoke to a retired Allied brewer who said he was only allowed to use a maximum of 25% Bramling Cross.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For further reading, see Rejected in 1960, Rejoiced in 2015?<\/a> (Or buy the book<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"Made<\/a>* The British Hop Association has a new logo for brewers to use on pump clips, bottle labels and marketing materials. From the press release: “Ali Capper of the British Hop Association said ‘As a result of our recent work to promote British Hops, brewers were getting in contact wanting to promote the Britishness of their beer and I realised that we needed a new customer-facing logo. We\u2019ve created something that will work at very small or larger sizes, that is clearly British and that promotes the provenance of British Hops.'”<\/p>\n

The logo is available at the British Hop Association<\/a> web site.<\/p>\n

\"Ales<\/a>* More hops with numbers, and in this case to support ALS research. Almost three dozen breweries have already signed up for Ales for ALS.<\/a> Loftus Ranches<\/a> and Hopunion<\/a> are giving away a blend of proprietary hops to participating brewers, who will donate a donate a portion of the sales of the beers they make with them to ALS TDI, the world’s leader in ALS research.<\/p>\n

The geeky details: Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing and John Mallett of Bell’s Brewery designed the blend of 35% HBC (which stands for Hop Breeding Company) 462, 25% HBC 369 (otherwise known as Mosaic), 30% HBC 344, and 10% HBC 366.<\/p>\n

The ALS Therapy Development Institute<\/a> (ALS TDI) aims to discover and develop effective treatments and a cure for ALS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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