tyrub42
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Hi everyone,
I was gifted about 120g of motueka and planned to use them with Sabro in a NEIPA. They were vac sealed and kept in a fridge for a few months, and are 2020 pellets, so they're about a year old. However, the dude who gave them to me got them as a sample and wasn't sure how they were stored before he got them. I didn't think much of it, but the pellet aroma isn't quite what I was expecting. They had a bit of a grassy smell and a bit of that flintstones vitamin smell to them. I've gotten similar aroma in some varietals before (centennial and chinook come to mind), but I expected these to be cleaner and fruitier in aroma, and the aroma they had left me worried about using them in an otherwise clean and expensive beer. I used them in the whirl so far but I'm hesitant about the dry hop.
Just curious about people's experience with motueka pellets, and whether this is how they smell fresh, or if it sounds like they're stale. Thanks!!!
I was gifted about 120g of motueka and planned to use them with Sabro in a NEIPA. They were vac sealed and kept in a fridge for a few months, and are 2020 pellets, so they're about a year old. However, the dude who gave them to me got them as a sample and wasn't sure how they were stored before he got them. I didn't think much of it, but the pellet aroma isn't quite what I was expecting. They had a bit of a grassy smell and a bit of that flintstones vitamin smell to them. I've gotten similar aroma in some varietals before (centennial and chinook come to mind), but I expected these to be cleaner and fruitier in aroma, and the aroma they had left me worried about using them in an otherwise clean and expensive beer. I used them in the whirl so far but I'm hesitant about the dry hop.
Just curious about people's experience with motueka pellets, and whether this is how they smell fresh, or if it sounds like they're stale. Thanks!!!