Showing posts with label brewing trends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brewing trends. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

All the fresh hop talk fit to print.

Thanks to Nora for pointing me to this fine exposition of the fresh hop/wet hop movement in American craft brewing.
A Hop and a Sip to Fresh Ales, by Lucy Burningham (New York Times).

The debris, flecked with a resinous, yellow powder called lupulin, stuck in workers’ hair and eyelashes. Even more persistent was the aroma: a lemony, leafy, earthy scent that is precisely what brewers try to harness when brewing fresh-hop beers in autumn.