A friend sent me this link from deals.woot for hopsdirect.com, they’re selling pellet hops by the pound, most are between $9-$11. Not bad. Stock up before the coming Hop Wars!
Tag Archives: Hops
Another Hop Shortage in 2011?
In the future, wars will be fought over hops… The explosive popularity of hoppy beer has become bittersweet as the total American harvest was off 30% for the year, according to December’s USDA hop harvest report. Especially screwed now are those brewers relying on smaller-yield, aroma-centric American hops to make mainstream-barreling IPAs, since Simcoe, Citra [...]
A Short History of Hops
This just in from the Zythophile blog: By itself this does not prove hops were used in beer, just “in drinks” (in potibus in Hildegard’s original Latin). But in a later chapter, on the ash tree, the abbess wrote: “If you also wish to make beer from oats without hops, but just with grusz [gruit], [...]