Labels:text | font | black and white | letter | screenshot | document OCR: Gathering the Hoppe Freshops 36180 Kings Valley Hwy. Philomath, OR, 97370 (509) 829-2796 HOPS - [Humulus Lupulus) A rough twining vine with separate male and female plants: The female bears ihrwers in the form of concs. The dried ripe cones are used in brewing for flavoring. flavor stability, preservation, and head : retention. LUPUILIN - Tiny yellowish resin glands tucked at the base of the cones petals. The gland is covered by a waxy skin within which Hies all of the hops tinique bitterlog (alpha acide) and aromatic (oil components. ALPHA ACIDS - The bitterness level of a particular hop variety is measured in percent alplid acid by weight. The higher the percentage, the more bitter the bop in direct proportion. As hops age . the alpha acid oxidizes and the bittering potential deminishes. This is - the month reason hops should he kept frozen or at least refrigerated. As long as the current years harvest Is used, the loss of alpha acid b minimal. FRESHOPS has cach vadlety analyzed for alpha acid and this percentage is truditreated for vath variety ordered, When using hops for bittering, a boil of approximately one hour is recommended to incorporate the bitterness into the wort. - -- ----- USING ALPHA ACID PERCENTAGES - Once you determine bow bitter (alpha acid units) you like a particular style of beer, shople algebra is used to balance changing varieties and alpha acid percentages. Cascade- alpha 6.0 % x 2 0zs. = 11 alpha ecki units Chinook- alpha 11.9% x @ ors. = 11 alpha arid undis Q= 11/119 =. 924 02 YES WE HAVE NO PELLETS- Freshops currently solls only raw hop flowers. They are often mistakenly referred to as keef hops, bur actually only about 1% of a hop bale ts leaf, the other 934 19 flowers. WHY PRESHOPS 7- 10 years ago, as a homebrewer I visited the L'SDA Hop Research Farm in Corvallis, OR I was looking for some hop plants so I could try growing my own vines. Besides aquiring some rhizomes, I was given some florescent green hop flowers, unlike any bops ('d bought before Those hups undivaled que to provide real hups to fellow homebrewers. Since that time, I have worked on the saque USDA farm as well as a 1000 acre hop farm, I now grow a sunall quantity of hops and supplement the demand with the best hope avellable. Every September after harvest. I rendezvous with the owner of Sierra Nevada brewery In Yakima, WA. . Here we are given the opportunity to select the cream of the Pacific Northwest crop, even heine the big commercial brewers get their hands on them, From here they go foto cold storage until your order is prepared. I feel confident that these are the best hops grown in America. HOPPILY. Daveuly DAVE WILLS
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