Guineafowl
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Something of interest for @brewdexta and others:
A regular in the homebrew fridge is an export porter 7.2%, made with a single hop, Bramling Cross. Usual supplier is excellent (Crossmyloof Brew online), but had temporarily run out. I got some from a well established ebay seller instead. No date on the packet, but vac packed (usual ones are CO2 flushed), and the same T90 pellet form.
They were stale - smelt of old upholstery/stale tobacco/cheese/not quite sure. Not right. Here’s a pic of the usual hops left, stale ones right:
Definitely paler in colour, more ’bitty’.
Anyway, the resultant brew tasted of that staleness, and was hideously overbittered, I assume because of beta acids?
Seller insisted their hops were fresh, and wouldn’t take on the criticism.
A regular in the homebrew fridge is an export porter 7.2%, made with a single hop, Bramling Cross. Usual supplier is excellent (Crossmyloof Brew online), but had temporarily run out. I got some from a well established ebay seller instead. No date on the packet, but vac packed (usual ones are CO2 flushed), and the same T90 pellet form.
They were stale - smelt of old upholstery/stale tobacco/cheese/not quite sure. Not right. Here’s a pic of the usual hops left, stale ones right:
Definitely paler in colour, more ’bitty’.
Anyway, the resultant brew tasted of that staleness, and was hideously overbittered, I assume because of beta acids?
Seller insisted their hops were fresh, and wouldn’t take on the criticism.
