dummkauf
Well-Known Member
Ok, so I was talking to one of the women I work with, who is also my supplier of empty wine bottles for the mead I've been making lately, and we were discussing beer(she snagged a bottle of Surly darkness and won't share with me ). Now when it comes to good food and wine, she is the ultimate wine/food geek, and she usually seems to know what she's talking about when it comes to beer, however she isn't much of a hop head and likes the maltier beers, but claims someone showed her how to "break the hops" when pouring hoppier beers to reduce the hop flavors. It basically sounds like she just pours straight down the middle of the glass and gets a ton of head, which I would assume would just release more hop aroma. Thinking this was odd I was talking to another co-worker later and he said that he'd heard of it and couldn't believe that a homebrewer has never heard of "breaking the hops".
My gut says this is a bunch of BS someone started and it has been spreading around, but has anyone else ever hear of "breaking the hops" to reduce hop flavors in beer?
My gut says this is a bunch of BS someone started and it has been spreading around, but has anyone else ever hear of "breaking the hops" to reduce hop flavors in beer?