Tag Archives: hop varieties

New Hop Varieties with Nathan Smith – BeerSmith Podcast #93

Nathan Smith joins me this week to discuss the many new hop varieties coming out for home and craft beer brewers.  Nathan, an award winning brewer, gave a presentation at last year’s National Homebrew Conference on some of the great new hops entering the market, and shares this with us today.

Note: The full episode with show notes can be found here.

Developing Hop Varieties – BeerSmith Podcast #32

This week we talk about American hop varieties and developing new hops.  Al Haunold, a retired genetic engineer from USDA and Dave Wills from Freshops.com are my guests as we talk about how some of the most popular US hop varieties came about, how high alpha varieties are used now and how hops are grown.

NOTE: The video and show notes for this complete episode can be found here.