How to learn the hop profiles in beers

Something like these, or do you mean on site? If I've misunderstood the question I apologise for it. I know you can Google as well as me. ^^/

http://beersmith.com/hop-list/
http://byo.com/resources/hops

 

awesome links, thanks! I've been wondering about this stuff myself...

 

You're welcome, but I think twizzard wants comprehensive clone lists for IPAs & DIPAs, and all I can find are pay to read. I'd like to know those myself. ^_^

 

I'm not a home brewer, but I'd like to know the hop mix, even roughly, in some beers I enjoy. To better help me compare and contrast flavors. What's the best way to find this out? Understandably, not all brewers are in the habit of publishing their recipes. Thanks.

 

Start with single hop beers or mostly single hop beers. (e.g., Founders Centennial, all or mostly all Centennial, Founders Red's Rye, mostly Amarillo, Weyerbacher Double Simcoe, all Simcoe, Anchor Humming, all Nelson Sauvin, etc.)

Then look at homebrewing guides for hop flavor profiles to get a sense of what the brewers are working with.

But once you start getting into multi-hop beers don't spend a lot of time and effort because different combinations of hops (and different times when they are added to the boil) can mislead your taste buds as to which hops are actually being used and you'll just have to rely on published information.

Also homebrewers develop clone recipes they publish online and you can look there for the combinations they use.

 

Don't know how accurate this, and it's certainly far from extensive, but it is interesting. I have run across it multiple times with different searches-

 

Could you steep hops in hot water like tea and just drink that? Id think that that would give a pretty accurate presentation of the different aspects of hops.

 

hops are often used in herbal teas

 

Thanks, this is what I was looking for. I'm not going to start brewing, but would like to know the predominant hops in certain beers. The clone recipe route makes a lot of sense.

 

I don't know of a list, but I once heard a story of someone grabbing a case of bottled Bud Light and some packets of hops from a LHBS. They popped the tops, dropped the pellets in, recapped and let them sit overnight. Next day you can taste each bottle (labeled of course) and taste the difference between the hop profiles.

 

Here's a link to a good homebrew blog site, where the guy did that experiment, just in case the OP wants to try.

http://www.bertusbrewery.com/search/?q=bud+light+hop

There is also a web site that has how to make hop teas for calming effects, but I can't remember that site. I tried doing hop tea once but I think the temperature was too high because all I got out of it was a lot of bitterness.

 

That was Scott at Bertus Brewery I believe (check out his site, fantastic resource for clone recipes and just really good homebrew tips).
Back on topic but my first single hop beer was 2 hearted. However after devoting my beer drinking life to hops, I can usually pick out a couple of hops used, not always though. When I tasted 'The Illinois' for the first time I could tell Chinook and cascade (haven't had enough citra to know what its like in a mix) and I've never heard of Meridian (illinois is a mix of chinook, cascade, citra and Meridian). There can always be certain nuances to hops that can vary person to person (piney in cascade, floral in centennial, berry in mosaic) but two people can drink the same exact beer and pick up different flavor profiles so above all else, drink what u enjoy and figure the hops out later.