If they’d made it California, they almost would have had me!
Sounds like the extraordinarily active brain cells of California are migrating northward. Pretty soon Oregon will be determining that everything is known to them to cause cancer too.
I wonder if there is a separate metric for determining the leaf hop equivalent of cryo pellets vs regular pellets.
Ok it’s April 2, so just chillax and stop overthinking this now.
Still a couple hrs to go on yakima time
Side effects of high hopping rates include: Loss of taste, handlebar mustaches, skinny jeans, the urge to play the ukelele. If not quarantined, high hopping in beer can infect other kegs, transforming an entire bars drafts into IPAs. In rare cases, entire breweries can be affecting, turning pale ales into session IPAs and pilsners into IPLs. At least one Oregonian brewer found his lineup included: an IPA, a session IPA, an IPL, a Red IPA, an IPL, a Belgian IPA, a sour IPA, and a Saison.
Wait right there! I love high hopping rates, and I would NEVER be caught in skinny jeans (this for your sake as well as mine).
Finally a beer law I can agree with…
April Fools!
Duh!
We all need some humor. Thankfully this is still a hobby for most of us!
I didn’t mean that negatively.
I knew it was a joke.
Do you know there are legal limits for the low end of hopping? The TTB says it should be no less than 7.5 lbs for 100 bbls. Nothing on AA of the hops is specified.
Edit - for those that have not seen this, it is in here.
https://www.ttb.gov/rulings/2008-3.pdf
The fact that hops are legally required to make “beer” has caused some problems. Those attempting to recreate historical ales (Egyptian, Medieval, non-European, etc) that contained no hops have been constrained to find a way to include them by virtue of their being licensed to make “beer” as defined by statute. There’s been some news coverage of this over the years, Dogfish comes to mind as one of the “victims.” (Yet brewers can make “malternatives.”) There must be mountains more of regulations than hinted at by the link above!
(The ruling in the link seems to counterintutively flip the usage of “beer” and “malt beverage,” so my usage may be off, but wow this is complicated…)
One trick that is legal is to take the boil hops used in a batch of beer, strain them, and then those are added to the matter native beverage. Got that from a brewer. It doesn’t say anything about AA or other qualities.
The recipes in Dr. Patrick McGovern’s book “Ancient Ales” have a small charge of hops. IIRC those use 0.25 oz per 5 gallons, which is more than the TTB lower limit of ~0.1935 oz per 5 gallons. I had suspicions that is why that small amount of hops were there, my calculation just now backed that up.
I didn’t take any offense, but I get it that exclamation points mean screaming out loud when used in forum context - my bad. We are all good, I hope.
Of course. No worries. I guess I need to be careful with exclamation points. I use them all the time in emails to staff with a positive intent. Hopefully, they take my exclamations positively.
Yes, there’s a big difference between
You are fired! and You are fired 