For this brew I’m trying out cryo hops for the first time in this Bracket Brewing “Insert Name” hazy pale ale. This recipe was adapted from a homebrewer who queried bracket brewing on their hazy pale ale recipe.
The grain bill for this beer is mostly pale malt, with a huge 30% of rolled oats and about 5% honey malt to give colour and a slightly sweeter/malty finish.
The hops for this beer are Motueka, Idaho#7 and Cryo Pop, previously known as trial blend TRI2304CR. Recent research suggests that high levels of monoterpene alcohols and polyfunctional thiols in a wort stream can create the conditions necessary for the yeast metabolism of hop-derived compounds, otherwise known as “biotransformation.” This hop blend has been developed to make use of briotransformation and to work as both a single hop or in conjunction with other tropical hop varietals.
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