Elevate Your Hops
“I’m not adding anything else to my beer other than barley malt, yeast, hops and water. Why would I use flavourings?”
Essential Creative Ingredients
Beer contains an extremely complex blend of aroma and flavouring molecules, that occur naturally during the brewing process to give beers their unique flavour. Whether it be the familiar hoppy terpenes such as humulene and myrcene, the fruity esters of ethyl-2-methyl butyrate and ethyl acetate or the buttery ketones like diacetyl and acetyl propionyl; these flavour molecules all contribute to the wonderfully unique and complex beer flavour, we all know and love.
But did you know that these same molecules, plus many more, are all part of a flavourists toolkit to recreate the taste of nature?