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Northern Brewer is a German offspring hop of Brewer’s Gold with some ancestry from an American wild hop. Its English-bred high alpha variety later found favor and acreage all over the world. It’s known primarily as a bittering hop in Germany.
It serves as a dual purpose hop. German-grown Northern Brewer has a more “noble” and less pungent profile than when grown elsewhere, which makes it suited to a variety of traditional European styles where a strong or “American” hop signature may not be appropriate – German lagers, Belgian and Trappist ales, farmhouse-style beers.
Sensory characteristics are predominantly spicy with an undercurrent of woods and wild fruit, suggestive of its Brewer’s Gold parentage. It is overall balanced with lasting flavor that reads as simply “hoppy” and not as outright woodsy and bright as US-grown Northern Brewer.
Alpha Acid: 6.0 – 10.0%
Use: Dual Purpose
Substitutions: Chinook, Columbus, Galena, Magnum, Brewer’s Gold, Perle
