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 |
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