Smellyglove
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I don't know where to start as to googling this topic.
I don't brew with a very wide variety of hops, but this goes especially for Cascade and Columbus.
I didn't brew in 2016, and didn't catch the 2015 harvest before I took a pause.
Last year I got some really terrible Columbus hops, used them once, then waited for 2016 crop. Tame, lame and sub-par comparing to what it was in 2014.
Cascade 2016, same thing. I popped a bag last week and I'm tasting the beer now. Citra, cascade and columbus. It's pretty much not very good. At all. Not very much freshness, dull, and in the background-ish. I also got some onion from the bag of cascade.
I know there were some bad hop growing conditions at least in 2015 in some regions in the states.
As a homebrewer, would I be able to differentiate between different hop growing regions in the US? Could it be that I'm getting hops from a "worse" region? I (we, the HBS I work at) use one distributor, which is one of the biggest in EU afaik, so at least that source is the same.
This is about the regions, not about how I handle my hops
I don't brew with a very wide variety of hops, but this goes especially for Cascade and Columbus.
I didn't brew in 2016, and didn't catch the 2015 harvest before I took a pause.
Last year I got some really terrible Columbus hops, used them once, then waited for 2016 crop. Tame, lame and sub-par comparing to what it was in 2014.
Cascade 2016, same thing. I popped a bag last week and I'm tasting the beer now. Citra, cascade and columbus. It's pretty much not very good. At all. Not very much freshness, dull, and in the background-ish. I also got some onion from the bag of cascade.
I know there were some bad hop growing conditions at least in 2015 in some regions in the states.
As a homebrewer, would I be able to differentiate between different hop growing regions in the US? Could it be that I'm getting hops from a "worse" region? I (we, the HBS I work at) use one distributor, which is one of the biggest in EU afaik, so at least that source is the same.
This is about the regions, not about how I handle my hops
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