American Hop Plugs - Product Info
CRYSTAL 2008 Harvest Alpha 4.9%
Description - Used mainly for its aromatic properties. Mild, spicey, Flowery. Medium-sized fairly neat cone. Viewed as the most pungent of the new triploid hallertau family of hops. Very popular with Craft-Brewers.
Wt. - ½ oz plugs, 1 oz, 2 oz and 1lb packages
Use - Pilsner, Lager, Kolsch, ESB, Alt, Belgian - Style Ales.
Possible Substitutions - Mt.Hood, Hersbruck, French Strisselspalt, Liberty, Hallertau.
Alpha acid - 3.5-5.5%
Origin/History - Crystal is a triploid aroma-type cultivar, released for commercial production in 1993. It originates from a seedling selection (No. 8309-37) made at Corvallis in 1983 between the colchicine - induced tetraploid "Hallertau mf” (USDA 21397) and the diploid male downy mildew resistant aroma hop, USDA 21381M. Crystal is a half-sister of Mt. Hood and Liberty
Grown and plugged right here in the United States, these hop plugs are the freshest available. Our hops are kept frozen at 32 degrees F before being plugged and once they are plugged, they are vacuum sealed in oxygen / light barrier bags and refrozen. Our bags are labeled with the crop year, plugging date, and harvest alpha.