For The Love of Hops

Stan Hieronymus is a professional journalist and amateur brewer who has made beer his beat since 1993. His travels have taken him to breweries in every state in the country. The editor at RealBeer.com, he's penned hundreds of articles for periodicals and publications and has co-authored four books with his wife, Daria Labinsky: Brewing Local (2016), For the Love of Hops: The Practical Guide to Aroma, Bitterness and the Culture of Hops (2012), Brewing with Wheat (2010) and Brew like a Monk (2005) for Brewers Publications and contributed to several other publications, including 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die.

• Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionMe to Mirror: So You Want to Write a Book About Hops?About the Book 1. The Hop and AromaHop Oils: Secrets Not Yet RevealedLess Is More and Other Aroma SecretsHop Aroma ImpactThe Language of Aroma and FlavorWhy You Smell Tomahto and I Smell 2. A Plant With a Past‘We Like the Hop That Grows on This Side of the Road' 3. A Plant With a Future 4. Growing HopsLocation, Location, LocationSize Matters, But So Does Family 5. Harvesting HopsTurning Acres of Hops Into Bales Rubbing and Sniffing A Brewer's Guide to Evaluating and Selecting Hops 6. The Hop StorePelletizing & Pellet ProductsHop ExtractsAdvanced Hop ProductsFrom Admiral to Zeus 7. Hops in the BrewhouseAlpha Acids and Beta AcidsThe Bitterness DriftUnderstanding IBU and Calculating UtilizationReady, Set, Start Adding HopsPost-Boil Hopping 8. Dry HoppingThe Universal QuestionsFormTemperatureQuantityResidence Time and Number of AdditionsFermenter GeometryYeastVarietiesThe Slurry MethodHop CannonTorpedo 9. The Good, the Bad, and the SkunkyHop Quality Group: A Learning ProcessPellets: Easier to Store but Just as FragilePolyphenols and Phenols‘Skunky' by Any Other Name (‘Imported') Is Still a FaultSome Like Their Hops Slightly Aged, Some Quite OldDry Hopping and Flavor Stability 10. What WorksAbout the RecipesThe RecipesOld World's Mantra, Brasserie de la SenneIndian Brown Ale, Dogfish Head Craft BreweryNew Zealand Pale Ale, Epic Brewing and Good George BrewingUnion Jack IPA, Firestone Walker BrewingFuller's 1845, Fuller, Smith & TurnerKissmeyer Stockholm Syndrom Imperial IPA, Kissmeyer Beer & BrewingRed Ale, Marble BreweryEnglish Lager, Meantime Brewing14° Tmavé Speciální Pivo, Pivovar Kout na Šumav˘eBavarian Helles, Private Landbrauerei SchönramMein Nelson Sauvin, G. Schneider & SohnNorthern Hemisphere Harvest Ale, Sierra Nevada BrewingHopfen, Urban Chestnut BrewingKellerpils, Victory BrewingVerboten, Weyerbacher Brewing 11. Epilogue BibliographyIndex