Earthy English Hops

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Earthy English Hops

Post by BeerEagle » Fri Jul 20, 2012 4:45 pm

Was brewing today, going for a big hit of 200 grammes of an experimental variety, late and post boil.

Had about 35 grammes of Northdown which I planned to use for bittering.

Luckily I broke down the cake of the Northdown before adding it as I found a gert big lump of dried soil in the middle of it.

That would have fecked up my clarity, big time, I suspect.
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Re: Odp: Earthy English Hops

Post by zgoda » Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:11 pm

I can say only for T-90 pellets, but last year's was utter crap, both Challenger, Goldings and Fuggle. Soil, wood fragments, other kinds of rubbish.
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Re: Earthy English Hops

Post by Beer O'Clock » Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:46 pm

Critch will tell you, that's not unusual with UK hops :evil:
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Re: Earthy English Hops

Post by alfie09 » Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:52 pm

i had some galaxy with waht looked like a bit blop of shit in the middle. i did taste it and it tasted of pure bitterness overpowering god knows what it was, but i was glad i found it and chucked it out
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Re: Earthy English Hops

Post by scuppeteer » Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:00 pm

Blobs of black shit are generally bits of grease, hop resin and general crap picked up from the picking machines.
Had a foot length of bine in the Bobek at work the other day. So it's not just the English ones. ;-)
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BeerEagle

Re: Earthy English Hops

Post by BeerEagle » Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:50 am

This was definitely brown crumbly soil.
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jonnyt

Re: Earthy English Hops

Post by jonnyt » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:38 pm

Pity there were no worms in the Earth, they add a great flavour
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alfie09

Re: Earthy English Hops

Post by alfie09 » Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:24 pm

how many worms to how many gallons?
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BeerEagle

Re: Earthy English Hops

Post by BeerEagle » Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:06 pm

Yeuch! Tequila maybe, but aint no damn worms going to touch my beer!
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Re: Earthy English Hops

Post by critch » Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:36 pm

scuppeteer wrote:Blobs of black shit are generally bits of grease, hop resin and general crap picked up from the picking machines.
Had a foot length of bine in the Bobek at work the other day. So it's not just the English ones. ;-)
but it mainly is.....



it really depends which farm theyre from, eg farams own gear ive NEVER had a problem with

i opened a pack of fuggles last week and found a 6 inch snapped off knife blade embedded in the middle, thats a new one.

goes well with the copper pipe, half bricks, nylon rope, a mug(!) nuts and bolts and a bloody spark plug that ive found in 5kg bales before

as you said though your always gonna get bits of mud and twine in em........
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