If anyone is interested this bottle pale ale is on "try me for free" offer 
in Tesco and Asda (and probably others) at present. The redemption is via 
post with circled till receipt and neck label as proof of purchase.

It's a lovely and unsual pale ale style beer - I guess that the unusually 
deep and hoppy smell and flavour comes from the US hops (Tettnang hops). 
Very nice but possibly a little too easy to drink and maybe a little too 
light in terms of taste.

Gareth.

Gareth a crit :


>[...]I guess that the unusually 
>deep and hoppy smell and flavour comes from the US hops (Tettnang hops).
>

Erm, Tettnanger is a traditional *german* hop variety. Not at well-known 
as Hallertauer, Hersbrcker or Perle, granted...

=> http://www.tettnanger-hopfen.de/indexen.html


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> Gareth a crit :
>
>>[...]I guess that the unusually deep and hoppy smell and flavour comes 
>>from the US hops (Tettnang hops).
>>
> Erm, Tettnanger is a traditional *german* hop variety. Not at well-known 
> as Hallertauer, Hersbrcker or Perle, granted...
>
> => http://www.tettnanger-hopfen.de/indexen.html


Apologies, I did read somewhere - and I can't remember where (perhaps in a 
dream) - that the hops were imported from the US.

Gareth.

Gareth wrote:

> "The Submarine Captain"  wrote in message
> news:430caa7a$1_3@news.bluewin.ch...
>> Gareth a crit :
>>
>>> [...]I guess that the unusually deep and hoppy smell and flavour
>>> comes from the US hops (Tettnang hops).
>>>
>> Erm, Tettnanger is a traditional *german* hop variety. Not at
>> well-known as Hallertauer, Hersbrcker or Perle, granted...
>>
>> => http://www.tettnanger-hopfen.de/indexen.html
>
> Apologies, I did read somewhere - and I can't remember where (perhaps
> in a dream) - that the hops were imported from the US.
>
> Gareth.


"Tettnanger is an old aroma variety originating in the Tettnang area around 
Lake Constance in southern Germany."

https://www.johnihaas.com/cmsdk/content/web/agronomy/popvariety3fa5.htm

Wow! You learn something every day!

Brian

But these tettnang were grown in US, see also a beer Young's used to
brew with US fuggles, or new CBoB, Crouch Vale Brewer's Gold, brewed
with a UK of the same name, now only grown abroad (Germany, Belgium &
in their case, US I think).

Now NewZealand hop-growers claim to grow many noble hop varieties often
organically too, but they've been bred/genetically mucked about with
(you can tell I'm a scientist, yes? it has something to do with diploid
& triploid something or other) & they turn out with massively high
alpha acids, which is usually associated with lower quality aroma /
flavour.

Not brewed with them ever though, so I'll reserve judgement, but
air-freighting organic hops into a hop-growing country seems a bit daft
to me too!
cheers,
MikeMcG.

BrianW a crit :


>Gareth wrote:
>  
>
>>"The Submarine Captain"  wrote in message
>>news:430caa7a$1_3@news.bluewin.ch...
>>    
>>
>>>Gareth a crit :
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>[...]I guess that the unusually deep and hoppy smell and flavour
>>>>comes from the US hops (Tettnang hops).
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Erm, Tettnanger is a traditional *german* hop variety. Not at
>>>well-known as Hallertauer, Hersbrcker or Perle, granted...
>>>
>>>=> http://www.tettnanger-hopfen.de/indexen.html
>>>      
>>>
>>Apologies, I did read somewhere - and I can't remember where (perhaps
>>in a dream) - that the hops were imported from the US.
>>
>>Gareth.
>>    
>>
>
>"Tettnanger is an old aroma variety originating in the Tettnang area around 
>Lake Constance in southern Germany."
>

Well, "around" may not be the right word, since the southern shoreof 
said lake is called Switzerland. :o)


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MikeMcG a crit :


>Not brewed with them ever though, so I'll reserve judgement, but
>air-freighting organic hops into a hop-growing country seems a bit daft
>to me too!
>

Well, air-freighting organic hops across the planet is a nice bit of 
ecological nonsense... :o>


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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:03:35 +0200, The Submarine Captain
 wrote:


>>"Tettnanger is an old aroma variety originating in the Tettnang area around 
>>Lake Constance in southern Germany."
>>
>Well, "around" may not be the right word, since the southern shoreof 
>said lake is called Switzerland. :o)


And Austria has a bit as well :-)
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