American hop


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Noun1.American hop - native American plant sometimes confused with the European hopAmerican hop - native American plant sometimes confused with the European hop
hops, hop - twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
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To this collaboration brew, Tiny Rebel used a modern American hop variety, Mosaic, to the base of what tastes like a slightly stronger version of ESB, Fuller's famous ale.
North American Hop Acreage Surges to All-Time Record High.
Plus everything from a chestnut ale to American hop lager, and your standard selection of draught beers, ciders and specialist bottles.
These first represented European aroma-type hop accessions while the second consisted of lines developed via the incorporation of genes from wild American hop accessions into European cultivars.
It's a classic British ale rather than an American hop monster-style IPA.
Among them are a pile of stills confiscated by police during Prohibition, a bull standing in front of a Cottage Grove saloon, a pair of young women with their bicycles, Native American hop pickers and a man holding a rifle.
Hop mosaic, hop latent, and American hop latent viruses were subsequently removed from commercial planting stock by meristem-tip culture.
There's a Five American Hop Pale Ale, which is dry hopped with a sixth and brewed at Anarchy; the second is an American Brown Ale infused with Bourbon done at Allendale, and the third is a Black IPA with Tyne Bank.
The aroma is one of the most amazing I have ever smelled in a beer - a tropical mix of pine and fruits, papaya, orange and even a hint of pineapple, all caused by the three American hop varieties Citra, Mosaic and Simcoe used to brew this beer.
Next for me, a Crouch Vale Eldorado, whose laminated sign promised An American hop, flavours of apricot, peach and melon".

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