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Larry Sayre, Developer of 'Mash Made Easy'
What hop varieties are used by the big commercial 'lawn mower beer' breweries like Anheuser-Busch, Pabst, Miller/Coors, Yuengling, et-al for their staple light lagers?
Large commercial US breweries : What hops do they use?
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I read somewhere that many don't even use hops, they use hop essence or something similar.
Hops in these beers are almost certainly blends. Hop extracts are also very common. Miller uses isomirized extract to allow them to use those clear bottles for High Life since isomirized extract doesn't skunk when lightstruck. Blends allow the breweries to make adjustments due to yearly crop yields and IBU changes. Hop extracts allow longer storage and more consistency. I remember reading that the majority of the world's hop crop is processed into extracts for this reason.
