If you could request a new hop what would it be?
I’d like to see a companion to Mt Hood. Mt Adams, a PNW version of Saaz
They already have that PNW version of Saaz, but it was named Sterling.
I love sterling. Use it in Kolsch, Saison and SMASH with 2-row.
Oh cool. Thanks
I’ll have 2nd year Sterling bines next year, which means i should be able to taste and smell the benefits in next years brew. My request is for Santa to build me some proper trellis’.
There is a Mt. Rainer hop variety. You should contact the hop breeding companies and lobby for a Mt. Adams. It is a pretty snow covered volcanic cone.
Yup, it’s in my back yard. I’ll have to get some sterling ASAP. Kinda getting into session ish brews lately
Sterling is a nice hop. I’ve used it in Saison and blended it with IPA hops for a little background complexity.
I like to use it in my Euro lagers along with some noble hops.
I would ask them to design a wide variety of hops that do well in the New Mexico desert, assuming adequate drip irrigation. Cascade does great, but I’d like to have some others.
Multihead is a variety grown in New Mexico. I just bought some on vacation. I don’t know where it grows though, NM is a big state.
I talked to some guys a couple of years ago who were doing some research into wild hops found in NM, but they were very tight with info. I saw somewhere that El Dorado is a hop developed from wild hops in NM but I don’t know if that’s true or not, and I’ve never heard of Multihead.
There are plenty enough types of hops for me to choose from. I am happy with this!
I’m a big fan of Sterling. I do find it to have some fruity undertones that are beyond what I typically pick up from noble hops, which is fine for most of my purposes, but something to keep in mind. I like Ultra a lot, and I use it as a substitute for Saaz quite a bit. It has a lot of the same herbal/spice notes I get from Saaz, but with less of the lemonade character I pick up from Sterling.
As far as hop requests go, I say just keep 'em coming. I love trying out all the new varieties and trying to figure out where they belong in my brewers toolkit.
Some specific requests:
- Some sort of Super Motueka. I love the lime zest/lemongrass notes I get from Motueka, but most typical IPA hops just drown it out in a blend.
- Any other sort of flavor/aroma that can be difficult to get in your finished beer. If I saw a new hop variety that was described as something like Orange Blossom Honey, I’d be all over it.
Multihead is a Humulus Lupulus Neomexicanus’ strain, from a google search. The farmer is Eric Desmarias. Might be what LR has for a commercial variety.
Freshhops says multihead is low alpha and peachy.
It’s a shame they don’t have pellets. At only 2-3% AA you could really stuff a massive amount of these into your whirlpool and still keep your IBU’s at a relatively low level.
I actually spoke with Todd a few months ago and he did say that he began with wild NM hops that they found at high elevation (8000 feet) and kept the ones that did well at 6000, also mentioned that there are a good proportion of citrus compounds to be found in the varieties that came out of their breeding efforts. He also mentioned that he worked out a deal with a grower up in Yakima to take over his project. Here’s a little background: http://www.santafe.com/article/humulus-lupulus-neomexicanus and where to buy cuttings: 重庆晕饺化妆品有限公司.
Never used any of them myself but would like to in the future.
Thanks, I bookmarked it so I can order in the spring.
As far as I know, El Dorado was developed in Yakima and does not have a NM hop background. One that was in development from NM stock was simply called “LR” when I got a sample of it, I don’t know if it has taken on another name since. I know it is not the same as El Dorado, because I was also given some of those.
If you were at the NHC in Seattle and went to Stan Hieronymus’s talk on hop varieties, two of the single hop beers were made with those varieties. The other two were Meridian and Mosaic.