Hi All,
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> A colleague has written an article which I found very instructive in
> dealing with the current Hop shortage. Unlike other articles I've read
> which all seem to do nothing more than say "the hop shortage is really
> bad", his article suggests how to deal with it constructively. I
> thought I'd share it here.
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> Colin.
Nice article. Your colleague writes well, but needs to learn how to form contractions, and the difference between the possessive pronoun "your" and the contraction "you are."
I grow my own hops, which I guess are grassy. What I would really like to know is how to measure their alpha acid content, which as I understand changes a bit from year to year. Is there any way to do this, short of sending them to a lab? I only brew 40-80 gallons per year. I'd like to follow this guy's advice and use MY hops for bittering, and then whatever substitution I need for aroma.