Friends, Romans, Countrymen. Howling Hops experimental DDH single hop pale series
In other times I would no doubt have been drinking glasses of the new Howling Hops, single hops DDH pale triumvirate at the Cock Tavern in Hackney.
As it is I tried them in can, locked down in central Cardiff with my partner Megan and Holly the cat (Holly isn’t bothered about beer but likes drinking bowl aged rain water).
You can read the details of the three beers here:
https://www.howlinghops.co.uk/2020/05/27/friends-romans-countrymen/
In summary Howling Hops have taken three experimental hops from Yakima Chief Hops, HBC 522, HBC 586 and HBC 692, brewed three as near identical as possible DDH pales at 5.5% and used each one to show case one of the new hops.
As the founder of the Campaign for Real Murk I can report that each did well on the murk front. However I think my favourite (& possibly Megan’s too) was Romans. Friends had to my taste quite a strong soft fruit flavour- perhaps melon. Romans was more piney while Countrymen was an enjoyable soft citrus.
You’ll take it that I simply enjoy drinking beer so my descriptions are not that technical. I’ll leave that to experts. If on the other hand you want an explanation of how Marxist dialectics work I can explain that in detail..
These are not ordinary times and for many very tough times so HH deserve credit for pushing on with innovation and innovative ideas just now.
The experiment would have been worthy of notice in ordinary times but much more so now.
The beer is still available via the HH website (link above)
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