Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Me to Mirror: So You Want to Write a Book About Hops?

About the Book

1. The Hop and Aroma

Hop Oils: Secrets Not Yet Revealed

Less Is More and Other Aroma Secrets

Hop Aroma Impact

The Language of Aroma and Flavor

Why You Smell Tomahto and I Smell

2. A Plant With a Past

‘We Like the Hop That Grows on This Side of the Road'

3. A Plant With a Future

4. Growing Hops

Location, Location, Location

Size Matters, But So Does Family

5. Harvesting Hops

Turning Acres of Hops Into Bales

Rubbing and Sniffing

A Brewer's Guide to Evaluating and Selecting Hops

6. The Hop Store

Pelletizing & Pellet Products

Hop Extracts

Advanced Hop Products

From Admiral to Zeus

7. Hops in the Brewhouse

Alpha Acids and Beta Acids

The Bitterness Drift

Understanding IBU and Calculating Utilization

Ready, Set, Start Adding Hops

Post-Boil Hopping

8. Dry Hopping

The Universal Questions

Form

Temperature

Quantity

Residence Time and Number of Additions

Fermenter Geometry

Yeast

Varieties

The Slurry Method

Hop Cannon

Torpedo

9. The Good, the Bad, and the Skunky

Hop Quality Group: A Learning Process

Pellets: Easier to Store but Just as Fragile

Polyphenols and Phenols

‘Skunky' by Any Other Name (‘Imported') Is Still a Fault

Some Like Their Hops Slightly Aged, Some Quite Old

Dry Hopping and Flavor Stability

10. What Works

About the Recipes

The Recipes

Old World's Mantra, Brasserie de la Senne

Indian Brown Ale, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

New Zealand Pale Ale, Epic Brewing and Good George Brewing

Union Jack IPA, Firestone Walker Brewing

Fuller's 1845, Fuller, Smith & Turner

Kissmeyer Stockholm Syndrom Imperial IPA, Kissmeyer Beer & Brewing

Red Ale, Marble Brewery

English Lager, Meantime Brewing

14° Tmavé Speciální Pivo, Pivovar Kout na Šumav˘e

Bavarian Helles, Private Landbrauerei Schönram

Mein Nelson Sauvin, G. Schneider & Sohn

Northern Hemisphere Harvest Ale, Sierra Nevada Brewing

Hopfen, Urban Chestnut Brewing

Kellerpils, Victory Brewing

Verboten, Weyerbacher Brewing

11. Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Stan Hieronymus is a professional journalist and amateur brewer who has made beer his beat since 1993. His travels have taken him to breweries in every state in the country. The editor at RealBeer.com, he's penned hundreds of articles for periodicals and publications and has co-authored four books with his wife, Daria Labinsky: Brewing Local (2016), For the Love of Hops: The Practical Guide to Aroma, Bitterness and the Culture of Hops (2012), Brewing with Wheat (2010) and Brew like a Monk (2005) for Brewers Publications and contributed to several other publications, including 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die.