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floydmeddler
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by floydmeddler » Tue May 19, 2009 7:40 pm
Hi all,
I have, lots of times, purchased Young's hops both vacuum packed and their cheaper 'bagged' hops. Why do they not print the alpha acid content on the cheaper hops? Is there any way of finding this out? It's ridiculous! Got a bag of Cascade through the post and am f*cked now because I don't know the alpha acid percentage!
Cheers
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delboy
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by delboy » Tue May 19, 2009 7:56 pm
Yeah that is a bit crap not giving the percentages, as a ball park figure if you used 6-7 % (6.5 probably) you'll not be too far out nearly all the cascades i see are in that sort of ball park.
If you are still unsure though you could simply avoid using them for bittering and instead use them as late/finishing hops were the alpha acid content isn't as critical.
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floydmeddler
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by floydmeddler » Tue May 19, 2009 8:18 pm
Cheers Delboy. Have Target for bittering and as you suggested, will use the Young's for flavour and aroma. Damn they smell good!
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Kristoff
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by Kristoff » Wed May 20, 2009 6:40 pm
floydmeddler wrote:Hi all,
I have, lots of times, purchased Young's hops both vacuum packed and their cheaper 'bagged' hops. Why do they not print the alpha acid content on the cheaper hops? Is there any way of finding this out? It's ridiculous! Got a bag of Cascade through the post and am f*cked now because I don't know the alpha acid percentage!
Cheers
I had the same with a bag of youngs hallertau, So i emailed youngs, asking what the AA was and surprisingly enough I had a reply within 20mins
Why don't they just put it on the bag tho
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haz66
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by haz66 » Thu May 21, 2009 10:34 am
Like Kristoff
I emailed them to find the AA of some Styrian i bought off them, and i got
a very rapid reply, but god knows why they dont just print it on the packet.
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floydmeddler
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by floydmeddler » Thu May 21, 2009 8:46 pm
As did I! Here's the email:
Good morning,
Cascade hops when received from supplier in March 09 were 7.6%
John Smith
Print it on the damned label then Mr Smith!!!
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mickoh
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by mickoh » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:32 pm
I have recently acquired a bag of Young's hops which are marked up as 'Goldings Hops'
Trouble is I am not sure which Goldings
any suggestions
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floydmeddler
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by floydmeddler » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:31 pm
They just straight Goldings. When I emailed them recently, they told me that the alpha acid is 4%.
