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Two Amazing Hops from New Zealand

We were fortunate to attend a webinar with Dr. Beatson, Brand Ambassador for New Zealand Hops. According to New Zealand Hops, "Dr. Beatson had been working in the research and development of hop breeding and genetics for 38 years at Plant & Food Research." During the webinar, Dr. Beatson revealed the two New Zealand Hops varieties that he is most proud of are Nelson Sauvin™, and the recently released Nectaron®.

Dr. Beatson's Bio

Nelson Sauvin™ - Released in 2000, "The quintessential New Zealand hop" is a dual-purpose hop adds fruitiness to both Ales and Lagers alike. A great addition to new-world beer styles including American Pale Ale and IPAs. Developed by New Zealand's Plant & Food Research, "the essential oil profile displays characteristics of fresh crushed gooseberries a descriptor often used for the grape variety Sauvignon Blanc, giving rise to this variety's name."

Download Nelson Sauvin™ Spec Sheet

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Source: nzhops.co.nz/products/nelson-sauvin

Nectaron® - This hops has been developed over the last sixteen years! From Lager to Pale Ale, IPA to NEIPA, and modern beer styles, this is a versatile hop. Sister to the Waimea hop, described as intense tropical and passion fruit, as well as stone fruit and citrus.

Nectaron® is ideal for late additions and dry hopping, consistently providing high quality tropical hop character every time.

Download Nectaron® Spec Sheet

Buy Nectaron®

Source: nzhops.co.nz/products/nectaron

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You may be wondering why you find things like cheese and yogurt making, kombucha and kefir, and etc in our newsletter. The answer is simple, there is a lot of crossover between homebrewing and homesteading. As we offer extensive DIY products in our brick and mortar store, it made sense to offer some of it to our homebrew customers.

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Yakima Quality Hops

Introducing the new YQH-1320 experimental hop variety. Discovered in Idaho on a hunting trip, these new hops attributes a tropical, citrus and stone fruit flavor and aroma. Our representative attended the fall harvest last year and described the hops as tropical fruit punch and limeade. The folks at Yakima Quality Hops even reached out to us a couple weeks ago. They were kind enough to provide us with a full PDF spec sheet which is available below.

Open YQH-1320 PDF spec sheet HERE.

Additional New Hops Varieties

Nectaron® - This New Zealand variety with a heavy tropical profile is the hot hop for 2023, it's popularity has been skyrocketing since it was initially introduced.

NZH-214 - This is a new blend consisting entirely of New Zealand hop varieties. Offering a lot of tropical and stone fruit notes, it pairs well in a Pale Ale, IPA, and hop-forward session beer styles.

Vista - This is a new hop that comes on the heels of Triumph and Cashmere. It has the ideal profile for Hazy and Juicy style IPA’s with lots of Honeydew, Papaya, and Peach notes.

Lallemand Dry Pitching Practices

On 3/13/23, Lallemand posted on their Instagram page "Dry pitching is the preferred method of inoculating wort. This method is simpler than rehydration and will give more consistent fermentation performance and also reduce the risk of contamination. Rehydration of yeast prior to pitching should be used only when equipment does not easily facilitate dry pitching."

Watch this video from Lallemand to learn more.

Source:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpvF2xuIXoq/

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