Yu-Gi hops

[danwilderspin]

I had a lovely beer with this hop … can’t find anywhere that sells it or any info on it… any ideas? I think it’s Japanese…

 

[Rafael Martinez]

That sounds like a unique hop! Yu-Gi hops don’t seem to be well known but Japan has been developing some interesting hop varieties for craft beers. You might try checking Japanese craft beer shops or online stores that specialize in international hops for more info.

Let me know if you find anything!

 

[worlddivides]

I live in Japan and drink Japanese craft beer all the time and I've never heard of it. I don't even know how it'd be written. "Yu-Gi" just makes me think of "Yu-Gi-Oh" (and in that case "Yu-Gi" means "game," but that doesn't sound like something you'd name a hop). I get zero Google hits for it in English and I get a lot of hits for it in Japanese, but none of them are for hops but for the Yu-Gi-Oh card game (using the word "hop" in the more typical meaning and not the beer-related one). Are you sure that's its name?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

The only beer I can see with it is Call of the Haunted by Phantom Brewing Co. But it's only one or two sources that list it with Yu-Gi, other suppliers and Untappd list it with Citra Dynaboost, Citra, Rakau.

So my guess is that either someone has had a slip of the keyboard, or somehow someone's tried to translate Dynaboost (YCH's whirlpool product), or something like that.

 

[IslandLizard]

I had a lovely beer with this hop

Where did you have that beer?
Can you contact them?

 

[danwilderspin]

This is the beer

https://premierhop.co.uk/products/c...0LcKMmcCqN73hhKwD8DgNK1HVugvEjRTzbFf50SoUrCQb

 

[IslandLizard]

This is the beer

https://premierhop.co.uk/products/c...0LcKMmcCqN73hhKwD8DgNK1HVugvEjRTzbFf50SoUrCQb

They're not listing that beer on their site (anymore), she may have been a Halloween special, going by her name.

I'd contact them to see if they'd give you some information on that hop, and possibly a source.

It's surely intriguing.

 

[worlddivides]

This is the beer

https://premierhop.co.uk/products/c...0LcKMmcCqN73hhKwD8DgNK1HVugvEjRTzbFf50SoUrCQb

Probably a typo. The brewery's own website does not list "Yu-gi" as a hop in that beer. It has the hops as "Citra Dynaboost, Citra, and Rakau":

https://www.phantombrew.com/pages/echoes-menu

6. Call of the Haunted IPA - New England / Hazy - (Citra Dynaboost, Citra, Rakau)​

5.5% ABV Phantom Brewing Co. Reading, Berkshire Rated 4.0 out of 5 on Untappd
Citra Dynaboost, Citra, Rakau

It's also worth noting that none of the beers on their website list a hop called "Yu-gi."

 

[worlddivides]

They're not listing that beer on their site (anymore), she may have been a Halloween special, going by her name.

I'd contact them to see if they'd give you some information on that hop, and possibly a source.

It's surely intriguing.

The individual page for that beer no longer exists, but they still have it listed as being on tap.