I love Jester, its exactly what we needed from a new UK hop. It brings some of the flavours I love in new world hops like grapefruit and gooseberry, but it does it in its own way.
Fergus Fitzgerald, Head Brewer, Adnams
| Alpha acid |
The main bittering substance; a component of lupulin |
| Beta acid |
A component of lupulin |
| Bine |
Stem of a hop plant |
| Blight |
Infestation of damson-hop aphid |
| Burr |
Female hop flower from which the cones later develop |
| Canker |
A fungal soil borne disease which attacks hops |
| Cohumulone |
One of the Alpha acids |
| Coir yarn |
Cordage and string made of coconut fibre |
| Cone |
The part of the hop plant that is used in brewing |
| Damson-hop aphid |
An insect pest |
| Downy mildew |
A fungal disease which attacks hops |
| Dry hopping |
The addition of a small quantity of hops to a full cask of beer |
| Dusting |
Applying powder fungicides or insecticides to growing hops. |
| Essential oils |
Aromatic oils found in lupulin glands |
| Foxy |
Term applied to dried hops showing a marked tint of reddish brown due to over maturity, disease or decay |
| Hop extract |
An extract of hops containing the useful brewing constituents |
| Hop garden |
Kent name for a hop field |
| Hop pellets |
Compressed hop powder |
| Hop yard |
West Midlands name for a hop field |
| Hopping rate |
Proportion of hops used in the brewing process |
| Hop pocket |
A sack, approx 6 feet long, in which dried hops are pressed and stored. Contains about 80 kilos. |
| Kettle hop |
Hop which is added to the copper or kettle in the early stages of the brewing process |
| Kiln |
Building for drying hops in a current of warm air (West Midlands name) |
| Lupulin |
The hop’s resin glands at the base of the cone bracts |
| Oast |
A building used for the drying and storing of hops (Kent name) |
| Perennial |
A plant that will shoot and grow again, year after year |
| Poke |
Sack of loosely woven material capable of containing 8 – 10 bushels of green (undried) hops, awaiting drying |
| Powdery mildew |
A fungal disease which attacks hops |
| Scuppet |
Wooden shovel used for moving dried hops around the oast |
| Sett |
Young hop plant propagated for transplanting to its permanent position in a hop garden |
| Spray |
A lateral or side branch of a hop plant |
| Stock |
Single hop plant |
| Strig |
Central stem of hop plant |
| Twiddling |
The process of winding or training hop stems around string |
| Verticillium wilt |
A fungal soil-borne disease which attacks hops |
| Wirework |
A pole system supporting wires and strings up which the hops climb |
| Zentner |
1 Zentner = 50 kilos, 20 Zentners = 1 Tonne |