In the beginning of this year we had the opportunity to purchase some Galaxy hop. I was informed by the seller that they came from another brewery that had an over stock and they wished to unload them. I was assured that the hops came from 2017 crop and I received a copy of their test results and everything looked good, Alpha 14.2% Beta 8.2% HSI 0.325. We purchased the hops and immediately put three beers in production.
This had been my first time working with Galaxy and we all were excited to get the beer out. When tasting the beer from fermentation to packaging I was not impressed with it and I felt the hop profile was subpar and a little odd. After packaging we received a large amount of complaints. As a result we began running tests and going over our records and the finial suspect was Galaxy hops. We had them annualized and found that they were damaged. The analysis read as Alpha 11.2% Beta 5.2% HSI 0.42.
My question, has anyone ran across this before with Galaxy purchased early this year?
This had been my first time working with Galaxy and we all were excited to get the beer out. When tasting the beer from fermentation to packaging I was not impressed with it and I felt the hop profile was subpar and a little odd. After packaging we received a large amount of complaints. As a result we began running tests and going over our records and the finial suspect was Galaxy hops. We had them annualized and found that they were damaged. The analysis read as Alpha 11.2% Beta 5.2% HSI 0.42.
My question, has anyone ran across this before with Galaxy purchased early this year?
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