British Hop Bomb Beers

[Covrich]

I just started to type try St Austell proper job cornish IPA but checked the bottle 1st and it says Cascade Willamette & Chinook, decided to write this anyway as in my opinion its by far the best beer ever in ASDAs 4 for �£5 deal.

Very nice beer but as you probably realise its advertised an English and American hybrid because they use all English grains (and yeast which by the way is bottle conditioned so can be harvested) and American hops.. Its more akin to being an American Hop beer to be honest.

 

[keat64]

I love the Sadlers Hop Bomb along with Oakham Citra.
On a similar note, I just brewed a single hop AG packed with Cascade.

Lovelly brew.

 

[Brewdoug]

This thread seems to be wandering away from its title to British beers made with American hops.

DIY Dog has recipes for beers made solely with Bramling X and Challenger hops and also Goldings and Pioneer in the IPA Is Dead series.
I'll definitely be giving one or two of those a go once I get down my list of beers I want to brew. They are certainly much cheaper options for using the large quantities of hops that go into Brewdog's beers.

 

[jceg316]

Out in France I found quite a few highly hopped beers and Duvell were doing a special "Tripel Hop" that was really tasty.

Presumably, the "tripel" means that:

1. They add bittering hops for the boil.

2. They then add aroma hops to the hot wort.

3. They cold hop the beer for more aroma before bottling.

The Duvell was particularly nice but, knowing the French, I doubt very much that they would be using UK hops. However, as they hate the Yanks nearly as much as the English I doubt very much that they were using American hops either! :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

I think the "tripel" is a reference to the style, as it's 9.5% which in Belgian standards would class it as a tripel. I think I've had this before, if it's the one I'm thinking of it's really good, nice n hoppy and a lot better than what I was expecting from Duvel.

 

[Dutto]

Looks like it will take a long search to find a hoppy beer that just uses UK hops.

The photo is of the three Triple Hop beers I brought back from France.

The Duvel Tripel Hop label actually gives away the fact that they use a USA hop as follows:

"Thanks to the third additional hop variety, Equinox ..."

Sorry!


PS

The ABV of the three beers varies from 7.5% (Duchess) to 9.5% (Duvel) so now not sure Tripel is related to ABV.

 

[serum]

Looks like it will take a long search to find a hoppy beer that just uses UK hops.

The photo is of the three Triple Hop beers I brought back from France.

The Duvel Tripel Hop label actually gives away the fact that they use a USA hop as follows:

"Thanks to the third additional hop variety, Equinox ..."

Sorry!


PS

The ABV of the three beers varies from 7.5% (Duchess) to 9.5% (Duvel) so now not sure Tripel is related to ABV.

If I remember right duvel triple hop is called that because they use three hops instead of their usual 2 which I think are styrian goldings and saaz.

Tripel is also a Belgian style and chimay white is one of those. Duvel is kind of its own style. It's more dry than a Tripel usually is.

Having said that Belgians don't really seem to care as much for style guidelines.

 

[dad_of_jon]

If I remember right duvel triple hop is called that because they use three hops instead of their usual 2 which I think are styrian goldings and saaz.

Tripel is also a Belgian style and chimay white is one of those. Duvel is kind of its own style. It's more dry than a Tripel usually is.

Having said that Belgians don't really seem to care as much for style guidelines.

Yes I've had a few of their tripe hop series , sorachi ace was particularly good. They have used an experimental hop as part of the series!

I used to know the difference why some were dubbles, tripels and quadrupels, but after many years drobking them I've forgotten

 

[serum]

I think originally it was to do with how much malt they used but these days a dubbel is dark and around 6-8%, a tripel is pale and 7-9.5% and a quad is dark and over 10%. Rough figures but most commercial ones fit into that.

 

[Brew_DD2]

Cloudwater Session IPA is a British hop bomb and it's fantastic.

 

[Covrich]

Cloudwater Session IPA is a British hop bomb and it's fantastic.

I heard they are nice not tried them:drunk:

But Again they are not British hops but American. A bit like the St Austells.

 

[Brew_DD2]

Actually I tell a lie. Although the Cloudwater beer does utilise British hops, it also contains Citra.

 

[Dutto]

I hate it when I get conflicting information so I went to the fount of all knowledge (Wikipedia) for the answer to "Tripel" etc and here it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer

:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:


PS

Do you too hate conflicting information?

If so, my advice is to never get married! :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

 

[Linalmeemow]

On the Haalve Maan brewery (makers of Straffe Hendrik and Brugse Zot) tour in Bruges they were very clear that the naming conventions are based purely on the amount of malt used for each type of beer rather than a descriptor of style...