{"id":16679,"date":"2021-11-03T06:32:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=16679"},"modified":"2021-11-03T06:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:32:20","slug":"citra-mosaic-saaz-or-cascade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/citra-mosaic-saaz-or-cascade\/","title":{"rendered":"Citra? Mosaic? Saaz? (Or Cascade?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kfi.jpm.mybluehost.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211103-saaz.jpg\" alt=\"Saaz hops\" width=\"710\" height=\"279\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211103-saaz.jpg 710w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211103-saaz-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211103-saaz-150x59.jpg 150w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211103-saaz-500x196.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A short thread on hops\/IPA as a conversation-starter. <\/p>\n<p>For the better part of a decade, Citra and Mosaic have been a headlining duet in American brewing (with or without a chorus of supporting hops). 1\/3<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Alworth (@Beervana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Beervana\/status\/1455533118241312775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Alworth posted a question yesterday from Atlanta (hey! we used to live there); more than one, in fact. So here are two I am thinking about: a) Is Citra\/Mosaic becoming a marker of style in the way Saaz is in Czech pilsners or EKG in bitters? and b) Do [brewers] feel like the pairing has become so successful it\u2019s constraining the style?<\/p>\n<p>As my wife may occasionally point out when we are out in public and somebody asks me about hops, starting a conversation with me about <em>hops<\/em> can be a mistake. I often have a lot to say. Thoughts in my head already started vying for a position at the front of the line after I read Alworth&#8217;s tweet. Showing unusual restraint, I&#8217;m going to take a little time to organize them and include the result in the next <em>Hop Queries<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/kfi.jpm.mybluehost.me\/blog\/hop-queries\/\">subscription free, sign up here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, for homework:<br \/>\n&#8211; Because of the way Twitter threads threads you might have to click around to find all the responses.<br \/>\n&#8211; Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonebrewing.com\/blog\/miscellany\/2012\/curious-subject-cascade-hops\">Stone Brewing&#8217;s history with Cascade<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; Also, take some time for Evan Rail&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerculture.org\/2008\/05\/05\/historical-perspective-on-saaz-hops\/\">historical perspective of Saaz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short thread on hops\/IPA as a conversation-starter. For the better part of a decade, Citra and Mosaic have been a headlining duet in American brewing (with or without a chorus of supporting hops). 1\/3 &mdash; Jeff Alworth (@Beervana) November 2, 2021 Jeff Alworth posted a question yesterday from Atlanta (hey! we used to live &#8230; <a title=\"Citra? Mosaic? Saaz? (Or Cascade?)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/citra-mosaic-saaz-or-cascade\/\" aria-label=\"More on Citra? Mosaic? Saaz? (Or Cascade?)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4l1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16679","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=16679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16684,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16679\/revisions\/16684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}