A crash course in HOPS part 2 (New World)

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In the second instalment of part of a two-part series, Jonny gives you a crash course in hops - what they are, where they grow and what to expect from the different regions and varieties. This week we're talking about American, New Zealand and Australian hops!
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[@MiniPunxx]

I started working in the craft beer industry 4 years ago, and I would like to thank you guys for having the best content for those who want to start to understand more about it! To this day I always recommend your channel for anybody looking to learn about it. If you guys ever in Nagoya, Japan please stop by Binge Craft Beer for a pint on me.

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

We LIVE for these kinds of comments. So glad we've been of help!

[@MiniPunxx]

@@TheCraftBeerChannel Thank you so much!

[@CasuallyDan]

Great series, very informative and can’t help but push the urge to crack a can or head to the pub!

[@daviddunlop8257]

Another cracking series. Cask Jarl is still my favorite expression of Citra, Fyne and Oakham bring British balance to this boldest of hops.

[@patrickoshaughnessy1504]

This has been a fantastic series. Cheers!

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

Thanks so much!

[@natedizzy]

Yay for Hops! Great explanation of varieties 🍻

[@smdhomeworkhelp]

A really informative and entertaining video as ever - thank you so much for everything you do for the beer industry!

[@beaudwayful]

Focal Banger is a banger! Another great video!

[@Delboy179]

Very informative and enjoyable.

[@gijimmyj]

Really well done video, I loved your perspectives. One of the best intro to hops videos I’ve come across. Thanks a lot for doing these!

[@isaacbarreto404]

I am loving this series and can't wait to get out there and look for these hops in my brews!

[@lazarinialf]

beautiful video!

[@ianlaker9161]

Jonny, that was one of the very best videos to date, in both parts. Very informative and, to someone like me who's been a beer lover for well over 40 years, revelatory in terms of new knowledge. It's sure to be a resource I shall return to when thinking of recipes for future beers to brew at home. Always such excellent content. Well done both of you. I’ve just shared links for both parts to my home brew group, East Kent Amateur Brewers.

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

Thanks so much Ian! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mikebate8647]

I'm a sucker for an all Citra DIPA. Still my favorite hop variety.

[@CaRlOsUnDeAd]

I drink Nelson hopped beers from North Park, Green Cheek and many other west coast american breweries on the regular. Nelson is my current favorite hop. I always get the white wine grape fruitiness, maybe tropical fruit sometimes but also a ripe tomato vine dank earthiness which i adore.

[@CarlPotts335]

Great video! I'd love to see a hops follow-up video where you should how to create hop schedules for different beers. It's one of the many beer topics I'm yet to understand.

[@zachi3731]

Great video and great series on hops! Totally agree that hops present differently depending on the beer. Have a local brewery that brews a Sabro single hop NEIPA and it is delicious.

[@kevinpayne3482]

FYI New York is also a great hop producing state and was the number one hop producer through the 19th century. Right now I’m having a wet hopped ipa from strange bird out of Rochester New York which has New York chinook hops and NY-2 row honey 35 malts 👍🏻🍻

[@FatherEarth93]

Great video's! Important notion that every hop presents differently in different beer styles! Would love to see a similar crash course on malts, but dragging 25kg bags of malt into the brewdio might be less practical.😅

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

@FatherEarth93 definitely going ti do one... but maybe with sample bags

[@frasermacdonald3202]

Citra is the dragon I've been chasing for 15 years now...

[@ME-pr5vy]

Very good video

[@jonbibby9755]

Great video (as per usual). Citra heavy beers do tend to give me a headache I find, I much prefer Mosaic

[@xander1052]

My favourite hops I've brewed with are Simcoe, Loral, Admiral and Fuggle. First I ever brewed with was Amarillo but I can't stop using Fuggle

[@BenRiley1804]

Loved this and am familiar with all these hops. It would be cool if you could recommend a list of beers that are great examples of all these hops. Maybe on the pod? 😊

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

Certainly can - the issue will be making sure they are available to as many people as possible!

[@nerdyharrybartending]

​@@TheCraftBeerChannel please, please make a video like this!! I don't care if I can't get them it's just so hard to find people who are knowledgeable about how a brewery did with their hops...most of the time I can't tell if I like the hops or if I just like the brewery...

[@aproud1]

Thank you for another great video. Just to be that guy... home brewing was legalized (here in the states) in 1978. President Carter signed the bill on October 14, 1978, and it went into effect on February 1, 1979

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

@aproud1 sorry! Meant 70s not 60s!

[@aproud1]

@@TheCraftBeerChannel All good. Cheers!

[@filmscorefreak]

Imagine the government telling you that you can't brew beer at home..land of the free lol

[@aproud1]

@@filmscorefreak Land of the free flying bullets.

[@Davidagain98]

@@aproud1better than flying knives tho 🤷

[@davidellis6468]

The brewdio must have absolutely smelt amazing after this episode!

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

@@davidellis6468 it sure did. As did I.

[@danieltaylor3737]

As a Kiwi, I can confirm my house smells of lemon drizzle and green fruit pastels - that is the mandated NZ aroma 😀

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

What a world you live in!

[@nerdyharrybartending]

If you can't judge a hops by a single beer, how do you judge a variety of hops? For example, based on the examples and info you shared about Cascade, I think I may not be a fan of that variety, as I remember it being on a number of pale ales that I thought were too resin-y, pine-y, sharp, or otherwise overpowering (eg. anything Sierra Nevada makes is gross to me, INCLUDING their hazy IPA). Is that enough information for me to declare that I don't appreciate Cascade?

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

Well I'd never want someone to write off a wonderful hop like Cascade but if you've tried lots a number of beers with cascade then I'd say you can!

[@dano5008]

GIVE ME THOSE MARIJUANA HOPS MMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[@Hulivilikakka]

Tbh a single-hop East Kent Goldings NEIPA sounds like a great idea to me! Better to break the rules and go for something completely different rather than copy the hop bill of that yet another IPA that tastes exactly like all those thousands of Citra/Mosaic combo IPAs

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

@Hulivilikakka haha unfortunately if you dry hopped with EKG to 16 grams per litre like an NEIPA you'd essentially end up with a beer that tasted like chewing a stick.

[@Hulivilikakka]

@@TheCraftBeerChannel I still think we have to try it out with my homebrewer friend just in case :D I'm just so tired of all the modern IPAs tasting too same-y. If IPA has a combination of just Citra and Mosaic with nothing else I don't even bother with it anymore. 5200 ratings on Untappd so I'm sort of giving up on tasting new beers and re-buying the old good classics instead

[@philclifton6813]

The original IPAs were hopped with huge amounts of Goldings! But not drunk fresh. So if it tastes bad fresh, just leave it to develop.

[@DC-Aust]

Pride of Ringwood anyone? 😂

[@Slothmann00]

The very hop responsible for sending many of us too the craft beer revolution. Haha!

[@whosradl]

But the real question is.... what are you brewing with all those hops?!

[@filmscorefreak]

When Citra first hit the scene i remember it being intensely orange-y, i wasn't a fan. It seems to have developed into something more complex and interesting, i do like it now quite a bit. Unrelated- when you speak you do a lot of loud, guttural "umm"s between thoughts lol gets to be distracting..sorry to nitpick, great vid though.

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

Haha apologies. We don't script our videos in the slightest so that's my brain whirring. Trying to fix it!

[@ofir_likes_beer]

Citra was released in 2007, not 2009 Still super late, wowwww

[@andyleighton3616]

It came to the UK in 2009 (John Bryan of Oakham Ales got hold of some) as I am sure that Jonny knows having visited Oakham Ales. I find it great that a small (and in those days they were pretty small) brewer in the UK was the first to use it - and for cask beer.

[@fedorp4713]

Great series. The last few years I've honestly been hoping that the NZ fad would just go away. Every time I've had a NZ style beer it has been incredibly disappointing. Every NZ IPA I've tried tasted like a watered down NE IPA a mediocre brewery would produce, even though the same breweries make excelent NE IPAs. It just seems like a waste of time and water making something so boring. Every time I see a NZ IPA at the store I just cringe. I do love dank Saaz beers, so maybe I'll look for a strongly hopped NZ Pils.

[@mikebate8647]

Yes, absolutely this. Azvex in particular have been guilty of putting NZ hops in everything they've made this year. I don't hate them nor am I that enamoured of them I just think they're being overused.

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

This is wild to me! NZ and Aus hops are usually, if anything, more intense and unique than their US counterparts. They should be jumping out the glass rather than coming across muted. Perhaps the breweries aren't getting the best hops compared to what they get from the US.

[@mikebate8647]

@@TheCraftBeerChannel In sure it's just a question of taste and I'm probably guilty of lumping Motueka, Riwaka etc into a catch all NZ hops basket. It's likely just Nelson that I'm a bit sick of.

[@fedorp4713]

@@TheCraftBeerChannel The US hops are likely locally grown here in Canada and would be pretty fresh. I have Chinook and Cascade growing in the backyard even though it gets down to -45c here in winter. You can grow hops pretty much anywhere.