Hops & Wood

In recent years there has been a growing trend towards beers with unique aromas, and breweries

have benefited from a multitude of different possibilities to achieve this goal, including the

storage of beer in wooden barrels.

In order to simulate the influence of hops when storing beer in wooden casks, we added 400 g/hl

of wood chips (made by Eder, Chips Series XT 4) to a pale ale (12,1 % specific gravity, 5,2 Vol-%

alcohol) and furthermore dry-hopped the beer with different hop varieties. The following beers

were brewed on this basis:

• Initial beer: pale ale without wood chips

• Reference beer: pale ale with wood chips, no dry-hopping

• Nobel Plus: 12 g/hl

• Saphir: 300 g/hl

• Zeus: 300 g/hl

• Chinook: 300 g/hl

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