Hops description

[cheesewiz6]

I like ipa's so I am trying to learn about hops. There are three main descriptions one I can figure out. Citrus is going to be citrus tasting. The ones that arn't as clear to me are floral and spicey. I have never eaten a flower so what are some beers that I can buy that would be floral? Spicey screams hot sauce or very broad flavor because there are many spices so same deal what are some spicey beers?

 

[smagee]

I've had good success finding single-hop brews coming out of microbreweries at Bevmo and such lately; you could identify a hop that's spicy (Chinook comes to mind) and track a single-hop version of it down. I don't have any specific recommendations, though.

I also look up my hops at http://brew365.com/ when I'm trying to identify particular characteristics. That might help you identify hops with the characteristics you want to test out.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that site also has commercial beer examples listed for most of the common hop varieties, so it can also help you track down some beers to sample .

 

[dantheman13]

I got an idea to try hop teas from Steeljan's youtube channel (). Basically, she boils a single hop for 15/5 minutes, cools it, and then adds it to a very low hopped beer that just has a little bittering hops.

 

[Boy]

Really good article for you. 12 breweries do individual smash ales to pin down the flavor characteristics of twelve hops.

http://www.ratebeer.com/Story.asp?StoryID=482

 

[Adamb258]

Very cool article

 

[PolishStout]

http://www.tasteyourbeer.com/researchcommercialbeers.php

here's another good hops listing and description. all on one page in a nice graph

also if you click on the hop name it will give a list of beers that use it.