Hops use in Beer Production
It’s hard to find a person who hasn’t tasted or drinks beer which is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages of all time. And if you are the one then you are going to know a lot more about that pint you gulped last.
The beer stands to be the third most popular drink across the globe after the water and tea that is consumed most. With such worldwide popularity, beer has become a part of the cultures of many nations and even is celebrated through beer festivals that have associated the beer in the traditions of many communities.
Do you ever wonder how is it made and what goes into it that makes it the most wanted drinks to go with any food item?
Here you will find out all those hidden facts along with the best places to access its botanical ingredient.
Beer is made through the process of brewing, wherewith other ingredients like barley, yeast, and water, very specific natural preservative are used. This ingredient is Hops which is a flower of the plant called Humulus lupulus in Latin. It is specifically used as a flavoring, bittering and stability agent in any beer. Hops also present a fruity, citrus and flowery aroma to drinks it is added to.
Beer was initially made with the most important additives that make a beer like barley, water, and yeast. But this combination made beer an unpleasantly sweet and dull beverage. Hence, many other additives like spruce tips, bog myrtle, etc came in use and were added to enhance the flavor. It made the beer taste good however by the 15th century there was one vigorous weed that changed the game. And that was Hops.
Hops is a flowering plant, native to Europe and a few more parts. These are Bine plants that generate female cone-shaped fruits that are used in breweries. These fragrant flower cones are what we know as hops.
Common hops Albania or common hop Albania (Houblon Albanie in french) are used extensively by the breweries world-wide.
Hops Albania is found in southern-eastern Europe in abundance. It’s amazing ability to preserve and stabilize the beverage make this common hop or common hops, different from other similar herbs.
Common Hops Albania is wild collected by companies such as Bidaj. Here, the common hops collections done with the procedures that are certified. The company collects up to 40 tons of hops a year and through the trusted process of handpicking they ensure the best quality of the herb.
From herbs for Gin production (Juniper Berries Albania) to the common hops collection for breweries like Hops Albania, Bidaj is one of the leaders for natural and medicinal herbs market in Albania since 1994 and is a trusted vendor for the best herbs and spices of Europe.
Albania has an advantage of its plethora of varieties of flora that cover most of the country through its terrains, rocks, and plains. Most of the world’s share of medicinal herbs and spices like hops Albania wild collected and dried in this region.
Hops have made their own place amongst the wide variety of medically used plants and still is used extensively in breweries that serve you the beer that keeps tingling your taste buds.
