The growing popularity of craft brews and the brewers' quest for distinctive aromatic taste has put the focus back onto hops breeders and new varieties.
By 2013 Australia had 200 craft or microbreweries.Two-thirds are in rural and regional areas and a drawcard for tourism.Until 2006 Australia's hops industry was dominated by bitter varieties, high in alpha acids that act as a bittering agent that gives beer its bite.
The US craft brewers, including Nate Lanier of Treehouse Brewery in Massachusetts, inspected new hop varieties, including Galaxy, an Australian-bred hop derived from a German variety, and Topaz, a variety that produces a beer with tones of lychee and tropical fruit. It'll be close to a record tonnage, and after the hop flowers are carefully dried and baled, almost half will be exported.
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