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I visited the berliner kindl brewery in Berlin. And I was surprised to find they use hop extract and not hops in their brew. And like to know your opinions on this.
How do you think it effects the beer?
Iv noticed this in other German beers too.

Seems to be totally standard in German breweries.

TBH I think you'd need a blind taste test to see if extract really does produce a different flavour as the same recipe with cones or pellets.

Pliny the elder from Russian river used it to. The modern supercritical fluid extraction with CO2 is very good compared to the older solvent extraion methods

A Russian river visit is on my to do list. <!-- s:twisted: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_twisted.gif" alt="" title="Twisted Evil" /><!-- s:twisted: -->
So is Pliny the elder. Im new to beer really so im not familiar with the brewing process, just the words extract had me worried that it was a cheaper product being used.
But if its used in top quality beer it must be ok.
AS long as it taste good. <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

&amp;quot;innominat&amp;quot;:321hw7bh wrote: just the words extract had me worried that it was a cheaper product being used.
But if its used in top quality beer it must be ok.
AS long as it taste good. <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->[/quote:321hw7bh]

you could also make that argument for sugar/table sugar, but it what helps make a number of classic Belgian triple <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

&amp;quot;oblivious&amp;quot;:2lq3exk8 wrote:

&amp;quot;innominat&amp;quot;:2lq3exk8 wrote: just the words extract had me worried that it was a cheaper product being used.
But if its used in top quality beer it must be ok.
AS long as it taste good. <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->[/quote:2lq3exk8]

you could also make that argument for sugar/table sugar, but it what helps make a number of classic Belgian triple <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->[/quote:2lq3exk8]

I was just thinking of starting a thread questioning how Belgian breweries can "get away" with using candy syrup and other stuff in their brews. I'm not familiar with a lot of Belgian beer though. Had a Goudan Carolus over the Christmas, a touch too sweet.

With regard to hop extract, I noticed it is used in Franziskaner Dunkel when I was in Germany. I wonder if it's Reinheitsgebot? <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt="" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P -->