Nelson Sauvin off flavour/aroma

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Permalink Reply by Crusader-Rob on July 18, 2016 at 9:18am

I can't say I've noticed - I assume I'll get to taste it next weekend?

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Permalink Reply by Sam DT on July 18, 2016 at 9:43am

Indeed you will, have to say I do have a bit of a love hate relationship with NS - love it as a background note but can't stand it in single hop beers, maybe it's just me.

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Permalink Reply by Crusader-Rob on July 18, 2016 at 10:01am

I've struggled with it in the past, but it can make some quality beers, when used well, like you say generally as a background hop.

I'm the same with Riwaka, its so much better as a background hop.

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Permalink Reply by Tom on July 18, 2016 at 2:04pm

I don't think I've used this years crop yet but noticed last year was much more Dank than previous years. The once passion fruit/tropical bomb is gone. This was for my beers as well as some commercial beers that use it with heavy hand.

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Permalink Reply by Sam DT on July 24, 2016 at 6:29pm

Hi Tom, yeah dank is probably a good descriptor for what I'm getting - definitely a real lack of fruit coming through. I noticed it early this year so probably from the 2015 crop - id assumed as the last pack I'd had was from this year as that was the back date but it could have easily been packed from a larger pack from last season.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sharp on July 19, 2016 at 12:05pm

Sam, how do you know that your NS is from this year's crop? One of the big bug bears of NZHops is that they stubbornly refuse to identify the harvest year on hops to home brewers. The only way I've found to buy NZ hops from a particular season is get them from Yakima Valley Hops who presumably buy them on a forward contract.

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Permalink Reply by Sam DT on July 24, 2016 at 6:31pm

Hi Kevin, yeah good call as above was packed in June but could well have been from a larger bag from the 2015 crop. You don't work at UC do you?

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sharp on July 24, 2016 at 6:54pm

I was based at UC for a while, and I still visit people there occasionally, but nowadays I live in Marlborough.

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