{"id":335,"date":"2014-11-08T09:09:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T14:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/?p=335"},"modified":"2014-11-08T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T14:09:48","slug":"notes-on-fresh-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/08\/notes-on-fresh-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Fresh Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/fh-glass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-336 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/fh-glass-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"fh-glass\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/fh-glass-251x300.jpg 251w, http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/fh-glass.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>Back in September we brewed a <a href=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/28\/fresh-hop\/\">Fresh Hop<\/a> beer with almost 5lbs of hops.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no easy way to say this, we put in too many hops.\u00a0 Apparently there <em>is<\/em> an upper limit.\u00a0 Right after tapping the keg it tasted like chewing on hop cones, so we left it alone for a while to settle down.<\/p>\n<p>While it did mellow out, it&#8217;s still not &#8220;good&#8221;.\u00a0 We think this was a combination of three factors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Way too many hops added too early in the process, and too many fresh hops can supposedly give a &#8220;grassy&#8221; taste.\u00a0 We do get notes of grass in both taste and smell.<\/li>\n<li>We used the hops within 48hrs but not as quickly as we should have.\u00a0 Hops begin to oxidize immediately after being picked unless dried and vacuum packed.\u00a0 Ours weren&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>The serendipity of an unknown hop variety can be irresistable but next time we&#8217;ll resist a bit more and put them into their own SMASH brew so we know exactly what they taste like<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We think we nailed the malt bill though.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not too heavy and has great lacing and isn&#8217;t too sweet.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll use it again, just with different hops more suited to its clean profile.<\/p>\n<p>But even when you get a beer that&#8217;s not quite right, but not quite <em>wrong<\/em>, you can <strong>m<\/strong><strong>ix it<\/strong>.\u00a0 A total throwback play to the 1800s, but we discovered that a 45\/45\/10 ratio of our Imperial Stout\/Pumpkin\/Fresh Hop was great.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t waste a beer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September we brewed a Fresh Hop beer with almost 5lbs of hops.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no easy way to say this, we put in too many hops.\u00a0 Apparently there is an upper limit.\u00a0 Right after tapping the keg it tasted like chewing on hop cones, so we left it alone for a while to settle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/08\/notes-on-fresh-hop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Notes on Fresh Hop<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}