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Found some wild hops in the UK. Trying to identify them

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So a quick follow up after having a couple bottles of the backyard wild hop ale. It's not really bad , has quite the British taste not quite goldings but it seems the similar. It also has a bit of a fusel/alcohol taste I am positive is from the hop? I will try to give it an actual tasting in a week then it will have been in the bottle for a couple of weeks.

Was a cool experiment, not sure I would.do it again? There are so many commercial varieties I still haven't gotten around to yet.
 
I'm going to wait until the beginner beers I've made are tasted, and then decide whether these wildings are just useful as a bittering hop which I strongly suspect now, having cooked them up for a couple of boils. There's definitely a grassy, weedy compost smell as they boil. I'm going to be really fascinated with the smells when dealing with a proper hop variety.
 

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