Date: Special Issue: Hop Lover's Guide
Left Hand Brewery’s Twin Sisters (Double IPA) clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA big, chewy, resiny, hop extravaganza. Not a brew for the feint of heart.
Growing Hops
Digital and Plus Members OnlyOne of the easier ways you can put the “home” in homebrewing is to grow your own hops. This widely distributed plant, with the latin name Humulus lupulus, is broadly part of the family of nettles. It is somewhat more closely related to cannabis, although it has few if any of the mind-altering properties and
Hopping Help for Extract Brewers
Digital and Plus Members OnlyAll forms of homebrewing – whether all-grain, partial mash or extract – share many similarities. However, each it has its own set of challenges as well. One of the biggest complaints of beginning extract brewers is that their beers do not turn out hoppy enough. Many homebrewers became interested in homebrewing after tasting hoppy pale
Wort Boiling & Hop Character
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThe bitterness in beer is developed by adding hops to boiling wort. Likewise, boiling hops adds hop flavor and aroma. The bitterness keeps the beer from being too sweet and the flavor and aroma of hops add a special “spice” to the beer. The amount of bitterness in beer depends primarily on how much hops
Hop Basics
Digital and Plus Members OnlyHistorically speaking, hops are a fairly recent innovation in the brewing world. Although evidence exists of their cultivation as early as 200 AD in Babylon, and 700 AD in Germany, they were not widely used in brewing until the 11th century in Bavaria. They didn’t gain wide acceptance until the 15th or 16th century
Build a Randall-Style Hop Filter
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWhen Dogfish Head created their Randall filter system for draft beers, it was to add a hop boost to a beer being poured. Build your own inline draft filter for hops and more.
Fuller’s ESB Clone
FREEThis recipe is for the bottled version of ESB. The cask version in the UK is 5.5% ABV.
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis innovative IPA employs Dogfish Head’s method of adding hops continuously over the entire boil. Showcasing a big US Northwest hop bill, 60-Minute is the session beer sister of 90-Minute IPA.
Stone Ruination IPA (1.0) clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis recipe is for the original formulation of Ruination, a West Coast IPA that defined the style with resinous pine, a big malt backbone, and a lovely orange amber color.
Anchor Brewing Co.’s Anchor Steam clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis beer takes its name from the days when beer was made in the cool climate of San Francisco on rooftops in the nineteenth century—open vessels were used to help cool the beer quickly. Steam is the beer that convinced Fritz Maytag to buy the brewery in 1965 and carry on the brewing tradition that started there in the late 1800s. It features a deep amber color and Northern Brewer hops.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s Pale Ale clone
FREEUpdated recipe with the latest information gleaned from Sierra Nevada’s website. ‘The’ classic American Pale Ale.
Build A Hop Spider
FREEKeep hop debris from clogging your kettle with this project — build your own “hop spider.”