Now the work on the hop field is finished for the season and getting ready for the next with double as many plants as we started season 2022 with. Yesterday, I also bottled my first IPA after have been stored on an oak barrel. After tasting it meets all my …
Yesterday, Hersbrücker Pure hops and Merkur was harvested in Hopvalley. As our Merkur plants were planted this year we only got enough for our own beer experiments. It is a hop with high alfa acid, even higher than Magnum that it is bred out of by Hüll Institute in Germany. …
August 2022 images with early Swedish hops, peaches and apples, as well as a new IPA that is being stored here on an oak barrel to be tasted in October. The IPA mainly is brewed on rye malt and hops with high alfa acid.
Our summer beer on oats malt and aromatic hops is ready. It is as you can see in the video a very light and tasty ale, with refreshing characteristics. In the background, you see a little part of one of the hop fields.
Yesterday was Beer Day and I brewed an experimental ale on oat malt with a mix of mostly aromatic hops. It looks promising with an aromatic summer beer, but the factor X is the malt. It will be very interesting to taste the result. The whole hop-field has now been …
The pilsner from the autumn harvest of Saaz and some other hops is now bottled. It looks very promising. At the same time, our Saaz plants, which are the foundational hops for pilsner, are growing on the field. It has prospects to become a great harvest that we expect to …
Smoked Northern Ale is a new beer that was bottled this Thursday. The name of the beer refers to the malt that is smoked with beech wood, and the hops that come from our field, but origins from the northern part of Sweden. As far as I know, the hop …
In the book “Handbook for Light Drink brewers – Practical-theoretical – prepared on the basis of his own twenty years of experience and the scientific discoveries of world-famous authorities” (only in Swedish), the reader gets interesting insights from the production in an industry that grew rapidly around the year 1900. …
Since, a few weeks now, the field in Hopvalley has been deserted, in waiting for next season. But at the moment, a new beer brew is underway here in the beer cottage, which is a tribute to the German beer tradition. As the ingredients are based on German wheat malt, …
Today we harvested, me and my wife, our Perle in the sun. There is still hops in the drying machine, at the same time as the brewery is mashing, and is laying the foundation for an ale on fresh Perle hops. It will be very interesting to taste the result …
