John Maye (1), Robert Smith (1), Jeremy Leker (1); (1) Hopsteiner, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hops
Poster
The major contributors to beer foam are hop acids and malt proteins.
Most brewers are familiar with the foam-enhancing properties of
isoalpha-acids, tetrahydro-isoalpha-acids and hexahydro-isoalpha-acids.
However, given the recent popularity in dry-hopping, some craft brewers
are experiencing poor beer foam. The reduction in beer foam from
dry-hopping could be due to the change in hop acid composition that
occurs with dry-hopping or due to the incorporation of hop oils or fatty
acids. To better understand what causes this reduction, beer foam was
tested via the Nibem foam stability tester before and after dry-hopping.
Non–dry-hopped beers were also spiked with a variety of hop acids, hop
oil, and fatty acids to simulate a dry-hopped beer in order to better
understand what causes the reduction in beer foam and what craft brewers
can do to remedy it.
John Paul Maye is the technical director at Hopsteiner. He has
over 20 years of experience in the hop industry. He received his Ph.D.
degree in organic chemistry at Purdue University in 1994 and started his
work as a hop chemist in 1993 at Pfizer’s Brewing Ingredients Division
located in Milwaukee, WI. He has published several papers on hops and
received several patents on hops and their applications inside and
outside the brewing industry.
