{"id":141,"date":"2005-01-09T10:12:30","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T18:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-12-21T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T22:12:01","slug":"the-hop-bomb-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"The Hop Bomb drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My christmas gift from my father-in-law included a box full of hops. A mix of pellets, and whole cones too. I&#8217;m a little overwhelmed, and for the night I couldn&#8217;t really focus on what we were doing. All I could think about were recipes. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p>Whole cones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Galena &#8211; 13.2% &alpha;<\/li>\n<li>UK East Kent Goldings &#8211; 6.4% &alpha; (freshly imported)<\/li>\n<li>Santiam &#8211; 6.8% &alpha;<\/li>\n<li>Crystal &#8211; 3.9% &alpha;<\/li>\n<li>Vanguard &#8211; 4.4% &alpha;<\/li>\n<li>Nugget &#8211; 13.2% &alpha;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and for Pellets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cascades &#8211; 5.7% &alpha;<\/li>\n<li>US Fuggle &#8211; 3.7% &alpha;<\/li>\n<li>Simcoe &#8211; 12.1% &alpha;<\/li>\n<li>Chinooks &#8211; 12.2% &alpha;<\/li>\n<li>Centennial &#8211; 10.0% &alpha;<\/li>\n<li>Palisades &#8211; 9.7% &alpha;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a couple I&#8217;ve never heard of, and one in particular makes me nervous. The Palisades are supposedly a new variety that could replace Willamettes. Willamettes are one of the most widely grown varieties here in the, uh, Willamette Valley, and the Palisade has a higher alpha acid content and a higher productivity, which could seriously hurt hop growers. Its one of those cases where the green revolution has surpassed its benefit to a large number of people and concentrated the benefit for one or two folks. You know who I&#8217;m talking about. The king of beers.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I&#8217;m pretty damn excited because many of these hops will be very useful in expanding the variety of beer styles I can brew. I know Crystal and Galena to be favorites of Rogue, and there are several noble-style hops that rarely use.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough &#8211; my coffee has taken on a distinctive hop flavor. Maybe I should move this box somewhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My christmas gift from my father-in-law included a box full of hops. A mix of pellets, and whole cones too. I&#8217;m a little overwhelmed, and for the night I couldn&#8217;t really focus on what we were doing. All I could think about were recipes. Here&#8217;s why: Whole cones: Galena &#8211; 13.2% &alpha; UK East Kent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hop Bomb drops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,98],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrew","category-recipe","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}