Does anyone have experience with these. Mrs. R grabbed some from YVH the last day, they were not shipping any home.
http://www.adha.us/varietals/pekko-adha-871
Haven’t yet. I’ll be curious to see what you think, Jeff.
Our club all got them… we were thinking about pooling and doing a smash brew, but I’m not sure when that will happen.
Stone had a Pekko dry hopped version of Old Guardian. I didn’t care for it. It was rather minty to me. Like drinking a beer after brushing your teeth.
Interesting… good to know. Maybe smash isn’t the way to go.
I edited my original post. I believe it was dry hopped with pekko.
Minty is in the description.
Drinking a pekko single hopped IPA at a brewery in golden, co. This place makes high quality, very clean west coast style hoppy beers. They list it as minty as well but as a secondary note. It is very interesting. I get more juniper than mint and it is the prominent attribute to me. Any pineapple, melon, and citrus that they describe the beer with is definitely an underlying attribute. It almost has a gin like character which is strange but interesting. It honestly tastes like what I think an IPA with juniper berries would be like.
I can agree with juniper.
I take offense at the Pekko-brand marketing material (re: http://www.adha.us/sites/default/files/uploads/logo-pekko.jpg). There’s a subset of craft beer attitude that is entirely adolescent; meaning, I personally need to be done with it. It has no place for those who have any kind of respect for women, and their marketing style doesn’t appear to have anything to do with good hops. Passing it up and staying clear of whomever is http://adha.us.
She could be a goddess. Have you seen the original Starbucks logo?
Although, the days could be considered insensitive to dwarfs.
The packages we got from HomebrewCon have a sticker that says Artwork Banned, over the artwork linked above.
Good on the AHA for being proactive. My wife pointed this out to me.
Good to know, thank you.
It is particularly unusual and unnecessary advertising for hops.
I did a Citra/Pekko/SorachiAce farmhouse ale in the fall. Was pretty damn tasty, although the Sorachi did overpower the Pekko somewhat.
Pekko seems to be a hops you can go crazy with; flavours aren’t very in your face. Did not pick up any mint or juniper. Reason I went for Sorachi Ace was an ever so slight cocumber whiff I got off the Pekko, which latched onto the dill-tangent of Sorachi. Neither of which found their way into the beer eventually 
Just wanted to weigh in on this post since I was curious too on Pekko Hops. Picked up a bunch at HomebrewCon in Baltimore back in June. Did a hoppy saison with pilsner malt as base and spelt, wheat, and rye as specialty malts. Bittered with Bullion. Late hop additions of Cascade & Azacca. Dry hopped with 2-oz Pekko. 5-gallon batch.
Think the beer turned out great. Nice & aromatic with plenty of tropical fruit aromas & flavor (mango, citrus, pineapple). Poured at a local event and the beer was very well received.
I think the Pekko hops really went well with the Cascade & Azacca. If I remember correctly, Pekko is a hybrid of Azacca so it seems only natural that they pair well with one another.
Cheers!
I recently scored a few ounces of Pekko from a competition. Among the flavor profile descriptors, it mentions it could be possible sub for Saaz. Thinking about making a Czech pilsner. Does anyone who’s used Pekko have any pros or cons for a Czech pils? The only thing that concerns me is ‘minty’.
Me too.
Maybe racking a small portion into a separate carboy and dry hopping with it would work. If it sucks you haven’t lost an entire batch and if it’s good you can dry hop the main portion.