{"id":11328,"date":"2013-05-14T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/?p=11328"},"modified":"2013-05-19T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T14:26:23","slug":"hop-aroma-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/hop-aroma-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Hop aroma impact"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BertUK hop merchant Charles Faram & Co.<\/a> includes an interesting twist in providing basic information about the hops its sells.<\/p>\n

Of course, its chart<\/a> lists alpha acids and has a few descriptors (“molasses, chocolate, spicy” or “herbal, pineapple, resinous”) but there is also a column for “flavour intensity.” Those numbers are quite subjective. But, just as the colored meters DRAFT magazine featured<\/a> about six months ago, they are useful as long as you also accept not everybody’s sense of smell is the same.<\/p>\n

Also remember intensity is not necessarily the same thing as impact. <\/p>\n

For instance, the Faram chart lists Galaxy as an 8, but it surely has as much pop as 9-rated hops like Citra, Amarillo, and Cascade> More than Admiral.<\/p>\n

It seems painfully obvious, but how brewers use the hops and how much they use, well, that’s important.<\/p>\n

Drink a Marble Brewery<\/a> Pilsner<\/em> made with Hersbrucker (6) or a Firestone Walker Brewing<\/a> Pils<\/em> with Spalter Select (5) and Saphir (5) for proof.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

That’s the late, great Bert Grant<\/a> at the top. Those as Cascade hops in his hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK hop merchant Charles Faram & Co. includes an interesting twist in providing basic information about the hops its sells. Of course, its chart lists alpha acids and has a few descriptors (“molasses, chocolate, spicy” or “herbal, pineapple, resinous”) but there is also a column for “flavour intensity.” Those numbers are quite subjective. But, just … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[268,452,668,451],"class_list":["post-11328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction","category-hops","tag-amarillo","tag-cascade","tag-charles-faram","tag-citra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2WI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11328"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11365,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions\/11365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}