permo
Well-Known Member
I recently bought a pound of summit hops. When used for bittiering I get a smooth and transparent bittering..........I have used these hops for three five gallon batches of pale ale and india pale ale style beers. The beers taste like onion. I put far too much effort into my beers to have my flavoring and aroma additions make beers taste like garlic toast. I am not happy with these hops.........I think time will diminish the crappy aroma...but I was banking on a a nice tangerine citrus aroma........not to be found.
This really makes me think, that as a whole, us homebrewers are at a severe disadvantage when it comes to hop driven ales. I just don't think our hops are fresh enough. I have literally ruinted 30-40 gallons of beer with my last order of crappy summit hops. I am going to stick to proven hops from now on.
This really makes me think, that as a whole, us homebrewers are at a severe disadvantage when it comes to hop driven ales. I just don't think our hops are fresh enough. I have literally ruinted 30-40 gallons of beer with my last order of crappy summit hops. I am going to stick to proven hops from now on.