Up next for tasting notes is Summer. This is a fairly new Australian variety
that I picked up on a whim because the description intrigued me. The
pellets I used were 5.9% AA from Austin Homebrew Supply. The pellets had
an herbal/noble-type smell with some sweet spice and some faint
floral/fruit notes.
The aroma of the finished beer had notes of
vanilla, leather, and earthiness. It also seems to really enhance the
bready/toasty munich malt character.
On the palate I picked up cedar, vanilla, some dry spiciness and woody notes. Bittering level was moderate.
I
was really surprised by my results with Summer. It was nothing like the
apricot and melon descriptions I had read. I'm really not sure what to
make of it, but the hop character I was getting from this beer is quite
unique. It would fit in really well in English styles, but I could see
it working well in dark beers, wood-aged beers, Brett-aged beers. I'm
actually tempted to dry-hop a dunkelweizen with it as well. I'd be
interested to see how this blends with other hop varieties.
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