Tom Shellhammer’s analysis work within the brewing area has been essential for serving to brewers, in addition to barley and hop growers, achieve deeper understanding of brewing elements and the way they really work. As a meals science professor at Oregon State College, he’s led vital research, together with a well known examine on hop creep. His newest venture is a wide-ranging, multi-year examine to grasp the impression of terroir on hops, and the outcomes of the primary yr of the examine have simply been launched. On this episode, Shellhammer discusses the examine—what they studied, how they studied it, what the outcomes present, and what we’ve got but to grasp.
Alongside the best way, Shellhammer discusses:
- what hop terroir is (climate, soil, latitude), and what it isn’t (geomorphology)
- the impression of farming administration practices
- the targets and parameters of the venture
- measuring compounds, but additionally expression by way of sensory, to grasp terroir impression
- how hop growers measure maturity on the bine
- the logic behind the give attention to cascade and mosaic varieties
- the compounds at play, together with monoterpene alcohols and thiols
- clustering of teams of taste and aroma compounds primarily based on location
- how the chemical compound evaluation interprets into completed beer
- magnitude of the variations in terroir and the potential for impression
- impression of microbiome in soil
- the size of distinction within the qualitative and measured components within the examine
And extra.
One takeaway? Leaning on hop selection alone is a not an ideal measure. As Shellhammer mentioned, “The variation between these two areas was as giant because the variation between the 2 hop varieties.”
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