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[positiveContact]

I'm not finding google to be helping me much here. They are the main flavor component in a belgian pale ale I have in front of me. I'm finding it to maybe have a slightly earthy? maybe flowery? I'm not sure what it is. I'm curious what the flavor profile is for styrian goldings. they get compared to willamette a lot but this doesn't taste like willamette to me.

Edited by mashleyJwilliams, 20 February 2011 - 05:26 PM.

[Mya]

I'm not finding google to be helping me much here. They are the main flavor component in a belgian pale ale I have in front of me. I'm finding it to maybe have a slightly earthy? maybe flowery? I'm not sure what it is. I'm curious what the flavor profile for styrian goldings. they get compared to willamette a lot but this doesn't taste like willamette to me.

They are technically Fuggle, but have been grown in the Slovenia/Austrian border area for about 100 years. I find them to be more floral than their sibling Willamette, and less woody than Fuggles, they have developed a unique character of their own due to their unique growing conditions and climate, they are a fine flavor and aroma hop IMO for many many styles. They go really well in Belgian Pales European Ales APAs make a nice brown ale, really nice IMO, and the brit home brewers have developed a Wheat Belgian Ale they call a Styrian Stunner, which i plan to try brewing this spring, it's 50/50 M.O. and Wheat Malt, T-58 SAF Yeast, and 4 oz of Styrian Goldings mostly staged at the flavor and aroma end of the brew.

[positiveContact]

They are technically Fuggle, but have been grown in the Slovenia/Austrian border area for about 100 years. I find them to be more floral than their sibling Willamette, and less woody than Fuggles, they have developed a unique character of their own due to their unique growing conditions and climate, they are a fine flavor and aroma hop IMO for many many styles. They go really well in Belgian Pales European Ales APAs make a nice brown ale, really nice IMO, and the brit home brewers have developed a Wheat Belgian Ale they call a Styrian Stunner, which i plan to try brewing this spring, it's 50/50 M.O. and Wheat Malt, T-58 SAF Yeast, and 4 oz of Styrian Goldings mostly staged at the flavor and aroma end of the brew.

There was some mt hood mixed in towards the end. so I'm getting some of that too. i'm not sure I'm a fan of the styrians or not. i hear the glory of gold playing in the other room. i must now leave to watch the end of good the bad and ugly. love it...

[positiveContact]

They are technically Fuggle, but have been grown in the Slovenia/Austrian border area for about 100 years. I find them to be more floral than their sibling Willamette, and less woody than Fuggles, they have developed a unique character of their own due to their unique growing conditions and climate, they are a fine flavor and aroma hop IMO for many many styles. They go really well in Belgian Pales European Ales APAs make a nice brown ale, really nice IMO, and the brit home brewers have developed a Wheat Belgian Ale they call a Styrian Stunner, which i plan to try brewing this spring, it's 50/50 M.O. and Wheat Malt, T-58 SAF Yeast, and 4 oz of Styrian Goldings mostly staged at the flavor and aroma end of the brew.

I think you are correct on the flowery. I think that's what it is. This isn't a trait that is common in the hops I use (I think). How flowery is EKG?

[Big Nake]

Miccullen's description is very good. Yes, they are a Fuggle derivative, but more flowery and less woody and Earthy. They are pretty clean, IMO. I really like them and usually have some on hand. I use them in a few different beers, mainly English Ales but I also use a small amount in a Marzenbier and I wouldn't hesitate to use them in a blonde, pilsner, wheat beer, etc. They're versatile. EKGs are a little earthier I think, but when they are fresh they are also pretty flowery. I ordered some EKG last fall from Williams (a 6oz foil bag of pellets) and they were really fresh and created some nice English Bitters.

[jhenjum]

Goose Island - Honkers Ale is 100% Styrians.

[lowendfrequency]

I agree with the descriptions above. I get a hint of spicyness from them as well. Bitterness is very clean but flavor and aroma come across like a nice fuggles/saaz hybrid (if that makes any sense). I use them as bittering hops in pretty much all of my lighter colored Belgian beers.