acidrain23
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New to me anyway! I just ordered 4 oz each of Nelson Sauvin, Summer (AUS) and Topaz (NZ) hops from farmhouse brewing supply.
Has anyone ever played around with the Topaz or Summer varieties?
Here are their descriptions....
And...
They sound interesting to me anyway!
Has anyone ever played around with the Topaz or Summer varieties?
Here are their descriptions....
TOPAZ: "Topaz was originally selected as a seedless high alpha-acid hop for the production of extract, but recent work has shown it to have excellent flavour potential, to the point that a beer hopped solely with Topaz was the most preferred of a group of five single hop beers by tasters at Brau 2010.
As a flavour addition Topaz can provide earthy notes similar in character to old English cultivars, and fruit flavour such as lychee can be detected in later additions and higher gravity brews."
And...
SUMMER: (aka. Summer Saaz) "Summer is a unique seedless aroma hop developed and grown in Australia. Summer provides distinctive light apricot and melon fruit notes nicely balanced by a background hop character which can be used to great effect in many beer styles. "
They sound interesting to me anyway!