GRASSY ?????

[The Baron]

Hi I keep hearing this word grassy in threads and it is coming up again in a current thread re Fuggles dry hop etc. Please could somebody give me a definitive answer as to what grassy actually means and taste like as I have never tasted it and I am sure that different people are describing grassy are not the same thing. I am not disputing it exists but when I read the threads it does seem as people are attaching this word to more than one taste which throws even more confusion and is being used wrongly in some cases maybe?

 

[Clint]

I've always understood it to associated with dry hopping for too long ..I've left mine well over a week and up to two but it's been fine.

 

[Rakey]

Grassy, a vegetal taste, fresh, green, like freshly mown grass. Can be associated to a number of reasons, over hopping, too long contact to hops, wrong blend of hops.

 

[jceg316]

I associate it with the taste of freshly mown grass, not that I eat a lot of the stuff. I don't taste it very often.

 

[The Baron]

Well I've never tasted grass, either I am doing the hop/dryhopping right or my grass receptors are shot. I have seen the description in hops that haven't been used in dry hopping as the normal description by the growers but still to taste it not that I want to as its for sheep and cows

 

[Clint]

Over hopping...some people put under 50g in a batch...some 200g...I've done 100+ and then thought MORE!!