In rec.crafts.brewing Bill Velek <billvelek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I brewed a few batches last week and in one of them I used a sample of
> hops that were sent to my by a commercial herbalist on the Internet --
> "The Raven's Nest" -- which she referred to merely as "Red Hops".
> Before she sent them, I asked if she perhaps meant "Canadian Red Vine",
> which is the only hops I could think of that used the word "Red" in its
> discription; the response was no, and that they hops are not red either,
> but that the lupulin is reddish in color. Sure enough, when the sample
> arrived some of the lupulin (presumeably) had settled in the bottom of
> the baggies and it had a distinct reddish hue to it. I've done some
> digging around on the internet and although I've found descriptions of
> varying tones of yellow, the lupulin has consistently been described as
> "yellow". The 'red' hops had a great smell to them, and not knowing
> what the AA% was I used them just for flavor and aroma additions. Do
> any of you have any ideas of what sort of hops these could be?
>
The hops were grown in the former Soviet Union ... or perhaps, less
likely,
The Republic of China {Red China!).
:-)
--
Thomas T. Veldhouse
When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of
us!"
-- Turkish proverb
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