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01-08-2014, 08:36
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Though we’re pretty confident when it comes to our beer history these days — or at least the bit between 1963 and now — we’re still very much learning when it comes to*tasting beer.We can’t*usually identify specific hop varieties, for example, so we have to make do with spotting big, obvious characteristics* — playing with the Duplo, rather than the Technics.
Though serious tasters apparently consider it rather crude, we still find ‘hoppy’ a useful word, at least when we’re talking to each other. It means, to us, a beer in which the dominant ingredient is hops (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops).
(‘Hoppy and malty’, we agree, is therefore not a helpful tasting note (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2011/04/meaninglessness-of-tasting-notes.html).)
The doodle*above is a version of something that we scribbled in notebook over a few beers, as we attempted to understand the various types of hoppy we are capable of perceiving.
STEWED is the one that’s newest to us — until recently, we’d hardly had any beers that had a ton of hops without also having a ton of obvious aroma.
The historical pale ales*we tried at the Birmingham Beer Bash (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/birmingham-beer-bash.html)*tasted*strongly of hops without having much aroma at all; Marston’s Old Empire IPA might be another example. Are there others that you can point us towards?
And which beers (ideally readily-available in the UK) do you think best exemplify our other sub-categories?
* How much do we actually want to learn? Maybe not too much more. And aren’t most people who claim to be able to spot this hop or that… bullshitting?
Hoppy (http://boakandbailey.com/2014/08/hoppy/)
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Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Writing about beer and pubs since 2007 (http://boakandbailey.com)
http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hoppy_474.jpg
Though we’re pretty confident when it comes to our beer history these days — or at least the bit between 1963 and now — we’re still very much learning when it comes to*tasting beer.We can’t*usually identify specific hop varieties, for example, so we have to make do with spotting big, obvious characteristics* — playing with the Duplo, rather than the Technics.
Though serious tasters apparently consider it rather crude, we still find ‘hoppy’ a useful word, at least when we’re talking to each other. It means, to us, a beer in which the dominant ingredient is hops (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops).
(‘Hoppy and malty’, we agree, is therefore not a helpful tasting note (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2011/04/meaninglessness-of-tasting-notes.html).)
The doodle*above is a version of something that we scribbled in notebook over a few beers, as we attempted to understand the various types of hoppy we are capable of perceiving.
STEWED is the one that’s newest to us — until recently, we’d hardly had any beers that had a ton of hops without also having a ton of obvious aroma.
The historical pale ales*we tried at the Birmingham Beer Bash (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/birmingham-beer-bash.html)*tasted*strongly of hops without having much aroma at all; Marston’s Old Empire IPA might be another example. Are there others that you can point us towards?
And which beers (ideally readily-available in the UK) do you think best exemplify our other sub-categories?
* How much do we actually want to learn? Maybe not too much more. And aren’t most people who claim to be able to spot this hop or that… bullshitting?
Hoppy (http://boakandbailey.com/2014/08/hoppy/)
More... (http://boakandbailey.com/2014/08/hoppy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hoppy)