Stan Hieronymus joins me this week to discuss hop survivables, biotransformations, and understanding which hop oils survive the brewing process.
Subscribe on iTunes to Audio version or Video version or Spotify or Google Play
Download the MP3 File– Right Click and Save As to download this mp3 file.
Topics in This Week’s Episode (46:41)
- This week I welcome back Stan Hieronymus. Stan is an expert on hops and author of the books For the Love of Hops, Brew Like a Monk, Brewing Local and Brewing with Wheat (Amazon affiliate links).
- We start with a discussion of what is meant when we talk about “survivables” and hops and what hop survivability means for beer.
- We discuss the “Aroma unit” and why it never caught on.
- Stan explains how there are over 1000 compounds in beer and only a small number of aroma compounds that are well understood at this point.
- We talk about Yakima’s Survivable Compound Handbook and associated Poster which can be used as a guide to determine when its best to use certain varieties in the whirlpool or for dry hopping.
- Stan tells us how we can take advantage of certain hop varieties and techniques to optimize aroma oil content while targeting certianoils.
- We discuss the 7 major hop aroma compounds highlighted in Yakima’s handbook.
- Stan talks about the importance of thiols and how our understanding of them has evolved recently.
- He shares his thoughts on using both biotransformations and survivability to enhance the overal aroma of a finished beer.
- Stan shares his closing thoughs and advice for homebrewers.
Sponsors
- Thank you to our sponsor Craft Beer and Brewing Magazine for sponsoring this episode. I encourage you to subscribe to their great magazine!
- And also Anvil Brewing Equipment. Anvil is a new line of kettles, burners and accessories from John Blichmann at Blichmann Engineering. They make top quality brewing equipment built to last a lifetime.
- Also check out BeerSmith, BeerSmith Web, BeerSmith Mobile software and the new DVDs John Palmer and I filmed – How to Brew with Malt Extract and How to Brew All Grain are available now. You can subscribe to the BeerSmith newsletter for free to get some great articles on home brewing.
Thanks to Stan Hieronymus for appearing on the show and also to you for listening!
iTunes Announcements: I launched a new video channel for the BeerSmith podcast on iTunes, so subscribe now! At the moment it will only feature the new widescreen episodes (#75 and up). Older episodes are available on my revamped Youtube channel. Also all of my audio episodes are on iTunes now – so grab the older episodes if you missed any.
Thoughts on the Podcast?
Leave me a comment below or visit our discussion forum to leave a comment in the podcast section there.
Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes or BeerSmith Radio
You can listen to all of my podcast episodes streaming live around the clock on our BeerSmith Radio online radio station! You can also subscribe to the audio or video using the iTunes links below, or the feed address
- Audio feed on iTunes – (direct: http://beersmith.com/content/feed/podcast)
- Video feed on iTunes – (direct: http://beersmith.com/tv/category/podcast/feed/ )
- Audio podcast on Google Play here
And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the blog and my newsletter (or use the links in the sidebar) – to get free weekly articles on home brewing.
