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Terroir Tuesday Week 27: Tettnanger (opens the original)
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Terroir Tuesday Week 26: Thora, Vera, and Vista (opens the original)
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Sorachi Ace Was Bred to Be a Saaz & Luminosa (opens the original)
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Sorachi Ace was bred to be a Saaz. It came out tasting like dill, and Sapporo's own published abstracts have carried dill-like as a descriptor since 2018, so the character was documented from the start and simply was not the assignment.That is the first half of this episode. The second half is Luminosa, an open pollinated Sorachi Ace seedling collected in a Corvallis research yard in 2013 and released by Indie Hops with the 2022 harvest, which inherited the geranic acid and none of the structure
Terroir Tuesday 25: Sorachi Ace (opens the original)
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Variety Vitals 3: Luminosa® (opens the original)
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