Stan Hieronymus
Hops Insider: Show Us Your Cones, and the FutureAs growers hunt for better visibility into the hop market’s future, researchers are looking into how brewing and growing practices might change in ways that directly affect the character of beer.
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Hops Insider: Getting to Know YouBy making direct connections with farmers, wherever they are, brewers can improve the quality and variety of hops they get—even at the smallest breweries.
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Zero to Hero: Putting Wanted Flavors Back into NA BeersEven beyond hop aroma and flavor, researchers have identified a number of ways that advanced hop products and related offerings can help nonalcoholic beer taste more like the real thing.
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Hopping Your Way to Better NA Beers (and Waters)Plenty of evidence suggests that skillfully applied hop character can make NA beers more satisfying. While making them both tasty and food-safe is a challenge, the knowledge base is growing alongside the number of hop products that can help.
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Hops Insider: Middle-Finger Hops, Bag-of-Weed Terpenes, and MoreNew varieties and products on the immediate horizon range from a defiantly intriguing public hop to compounds that might emulate “sticking your head in a bag of weed.” Will you apply the eye dropper, or the sledgehammer?
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Putting Mid-Fermentation Dry Hops to the TestRecent experiments at New Belgium could help smaller breweries decide whether the benefits of mid-fermentation dry hopping are worth the potential costs.
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Hops Insider: New Research for Fine-Tuning Hop-Forward BeersBrewers looking for greater efficiencies and longer-lasting hop aroma, among other things, can find several avenues to explore in recently published studies.
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Hops Insider: Bracing for the Next Market CorrectionTough times are ahead for hop merchants and farmers coping with surplus stocks and stalling demand. After enjoying wider selection and lower prices in the short term, are brewers ready for what comes next?
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Hops Insider: The Search for a Cure … for HopcontractophobiaThere are hops in abundance, but beer sales are unpredictable—it’s no mystery why many small breweries are relying on the spot market. Yet many suppliers are aiming to lure brewers back to more flexible contracts that better suit today’s market.
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Stop and Smell the Hops ... Before You Use ThemHaving a sensory panel to regularly evaluate your beer is good practice—but what about one to evaluate your hops? Brewers and hop-sensory experts share their best tips on starting up a specialized panel—and careful hop evaluation is something that even the smallest breweries can do.
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Hops Insider: Putting Survivables to the TestResearch into the aroma compounds that best survive the brewing process—and which hops are high in them—has changed how brewers add hops to their IPAs and other beers. As more research emerges, so do more opportunities to improve hop aroma.
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Hops Insider: What’s the Future for Boutique Hops?With hop harvest behind us, now is the time to find unique new varieties (before everybody else knows their names).
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