What do Sabro Hops Taste Like? SMASH Beer Experiment
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2019
- This week, we fulfill a viewer SMaSH beer request with a tasting review of a Sabro hops SMaSH beer!!!
This one was a tough one to characterize for Mike. He always defaults to some weird vegetal things when he can't place the flavor profile. Mike got some fruitiness, but felt that it also had some bell pepper and or some green onion in there.
The actually descriptors list out lime zest and coconut along with some other citrus notes.
We both were then able to agree on the coconut aspect but only with the prompting would Mike have gotten there. Take that as you want but we found this hop to be interesting but fairly mild in this application. Perhaps blowing it out with 4+ounces in the recipe would make those descriptors stand out.
Have you had a chance yet to try SABRO HOPS??
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You guys need to post some long videos of full brew days, I love seeing people's process.
Working on it! We sometimes fear the long format but we are working on breaking different parts of the process into shorter videos. Thanks for watching! -Mike
You guys should check out old brewing TV episodes get inspiration from their format. Their videos are what got me into homebrewing.
@@ryanyolosvinshon3814 I was a big fan of that series. We should do more of that too. Just wanted to do it in a way that was more original to us as well. Also, our production schedule is more intense. Our weekly video goal is easier in this format. But we want to try and pepper in more brew action type stuff once a month or so. Cheers! -Mike
great fun! check out long beach beer lab’s @lbbeerlab Big Lebowski pairing event. it was a dessert pairing to complement their Kosher (yeah!) bakery. one of the four they paired was a single hop Sabro IPA with a peppermint choco chip cookie. My palate is like really poor, but I did get some coconut in the end and some mintiness in the background.
4 years later and I have my first NEIPA with Sabro in the Keg. It has sooo much coconut aroma and flavor, and I actually paired it with Citra and Galaxy. The ratio is 4:2:1 (Galaxy:Sabro:Citra).
I brewed a Pale Ale two weeks ago, the grist was ale malt, pilsner malt and golden naked oats. I used Sabro for bittering 20 minutes, steeped 20 minutes with 55% Sabro, 45% Galaxy and Citra and did the same at dry hop. Beer tasted like a combination of mint and tropical fruits, was bloody delicious! Cheers fellas, love the videos.
Nice review! Thanks for the comment. -Mike
I’ve stumbled across y’all’s channel as I watch a lot of homebrew videos and was recommended one of your SMaSH videos. Love the format of isolating these hops to get a proper read on the flavors/aromas/bittering potential. Ive enjoyed how one of you remains in the dark as to what the hop packagers are selling the hops as.
I don’t know if it was a bad batch, mislabeled hops, or poor brewing practices on this one, but Sabro is my favorite hop and I’ve brewed with it enough to run through a few pounds in just about two years brewing only 5 gallon batches. It is unmistakably candy peach, specifically - peach rings. I get some tangerine and mild citrus in the background. MAYBE slight coconut, but it’s very sweet stonfruit candy to me. Every batch I’ve used it in. Super dominant too! In brews divided into 3 equal hopping proportions with Galaxy, Azacca, Citra, etc, I’ve had it be dominant to the point of losing the other hops! I understand it’s all subjective, but this seems off to the point of misinformation.
Love what y’all are doing, though, and keep making videos!
Awesome - we'll give them another try. - John
Sabro has actually dominated when added to mosaic and Citra and the like in the IPAs I've used it in. It's quite powerful. I get lychee and coconut a hint of mint and cream.
Interesting. We'll need to use them with those two other varieties. - John
Good vid! I really am not a fan of coconut in hops. I now know to avoid this hop. Thanks for your work!
I did a single hop IIPA with Sabro that got first with this hop...no coconut here rather peachy notes & other stone fruit
We give you our take to help out - thanks for watching. - John
Used Sabro a few times. Great results through whirlpool. (little to no onion) Tangerine came out. That beer was brewed with Sabro along with Zythos, Huel Melon, El Dorado
Nice - all about that whirlpool.
I was up in Portland, ME 2 years ago enjoying all of the fine breweries and I had Bissell Bros Swish and I swear i tasted straight raw onions and nothing else. Odd as it may seem i enjoyed it quite a bit. Of course it was the last stop on a many day trip of drinking beer but anyhow...enjoying the content, look forward to it every Wednesday night, Cheers!
Cheers man! We are big Portland ME fans ourselves. -Mike
Sabro hops is the best! I love that hops. I drank Juicy IPA from croatian brewery Lepi Decki, with Sabro. Amazing taste, fruity and dominant
That's great! Cheers!
It’s funny listening to this. When I drink green from tree House I get over ripe honey dew melon in the green onion. Not sure if they use that hop in that beer
Their site talks about Galaxy hops on the Green page along with some American hops. - John
Doing a APA. Wonder if a small bitter charge with Sabro and late addition of Cashmere would work well.
There's only one way to find out! Cheers! -Mike
I've used sabro hops twice now for my kviek ipa recipe. The aroma and flavor I get is 100% tangerine. The only exception is the few beers I have tried where they dry hopped it and I got more vegetal/coconut flavors but still a tangerine aroma. I am definitely sticking with it for my west coast IPA recipe because it has that "juicy fruit" quality you briefly mentioned and I love that approach to it. Cheers!
Thanks for the input. I'm designing a new beer now for a friend and Sabro keeps coming to mind for those orange notes. Cheers! -Mike
@@BrewDudes Hey Mike and John! Just wanted to give you an update on these hops. The tangerine that I am getting is pretty intense and present in a Sam Adams brewery only sabro pale ale that I have a 4 pack of. If you guys think that you can stop by the shop in Weymouth or Cambridge sometime in the next few weeks I can get a can to you guys to try (and review if you want, at your leisure). Hit me up and let me know because this beer is very tangerine forward.
Do you guys think that it would be good for a summer pale ale? It sounds interesting.
Its 100% worth the try. Don't be bashful and really load it up IMO. I'd bitter with something mild like magnum and warrior for ~40IBUs. Then hit it hard at flameout and dry hop with the Sabro. Good luck! Let us know if it comes out -Mike
I think Mike was spot on when he talked about blending Sabro with other hops. I recently did a NEIPA using a Sabro/Azzaca combination and I think the Sabro was pretty much overwhelmed. Maybe a little onion as Mike kept stating?
mmmm onions.... Cheers! -Mike
I get that green pepper skin flavor from Galena which is my favorite hop. It can be used as late addition but because it's high AA% people tend to only use it for bittering. I grow Galena and every late summer early fall I have a freezer full of hops that last me 6-7months. Galena is the best hop in my opinion, but now I'm interested to try Sabro. I'm surprised you guys didn't say "Sah bro" lol the puns alone would make it worth it. Keep on keeping on guys you rock. I'm kegging and bottling a SMASH beer this week with my homegrown Galena and Maris Otter. How do I send you guys some to try Idc about it being on video just want better input on flavor than just "it's good" that I get from friends and family.
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I tried a commercial, all sabro IPA a while back. It smacked my mouth woth coconut, all in the flavour and kind of blended with the bitterness; bitter coconut? When i brewed with it, i didn't get any coconut. I wonder if the commercial beer snuck in some real coconut
I think it depends on the lot. That doesn't mean the brewery didn't add coconut. - John
It's so odd that I seem to have a completely different impression of Sabro than everyone else. I find it much less fruity than most recent IPA hops. More funky and musky. That's why I really like it
If there's one thing I am learning, our perception of these hops can and will be different. - John
I don't know how you can taste this and not think it tastes like 100% coconut. Mix it with any tropical hop and it tastes like a gdamn pina colada. It definitely stands up against Citra, Mosaic, etc. I know everyone tastes things differently, but this one is so distinct to me.
Nice take. Perhaps we just need more of it in the beer to really drive it! Cheers! -Mike
To me, Sabro is the Vomit hop. Every beer I've had with Sabro in it had that weird sour, vomity aspect to it.
Interesting and unpleasant. I can see why you wouldn't like that. - John
Onion is usually a sign of late harvest hops. Could be a bad batch and not truly representative of the hops
I've had some bad experiences with oniony Columbus hops from yakima valley that were way different from other lots
Yeah, I believe that sometimes these less than perfect representations of hop styles get sent to the homebrew market. With close to 9K breweries in the US alone I'd bet that problem is becoming more frequent that we'd like to know. Cheers! -Mike
From Sabro I got coconut and cream.. like seriously cream, like if cream was actually added to the beer. Also very clearly a coconut taste. Sabro + Bru1 and you have Pina Colada beer.
Yes - Sabro and Bru-1 would be an interesting combo. - John
what is a smash beer again?
Single Malt And Single Hop
Correct!
I have to disagree on the assessment of this hop. I have used it many times and have paired it with Mosaic (50/50) and it has held its own every time. I would not consider Sabro delicate, but classify it as assertive and up there in character expression with all the heavy hitters. It is very unique and lends a distinctive pina colada flavor to beer. It’s become one of my favorites to use in NEIPA’s. I’ve never gotten anything even close to green onion or pepper from this. Not sure where that came from??.
Not sure. I guess we got a bad batch.
Tell me again how is that beer is anything but oxidized?
Are you asking because of the color? -Mike
Yes. If not oxidized, what is it? Not trying to poop on your beer, but it looks like oxidized dishwater. :) Sorry!
@@MrJhchrist It has a lot hops in it. I have seen oxidized beers (and brewed them!) and they're much more brown than this one. - John
You and your onions LOL!!! Onions are good, beer is good, why wouldn`t they be good mixed? :)
Sometimes I don't want to drink cold onion soup, I guess. - John
I had an all Sabro beer, the bartender said it had a gummy worm flavor and that's all I could taste after she said that. Weird hop
Interesting - yeah, pretty fruity. - John
These dudes are baked!!
Nah - deeply fried, maybe. - John