We are not the only ones who are captivated by the magic of hops. Since the advent of the craft beer movement, the community of hop lovers even has a name: based on the term for friends of another flower, hop disciples are now called Hopheads.
As a hophead, you feel an exuberant enthusiasm for brews that contain a particularly high amount of the green gold. You have a fascination for the cones, know about the individual varieties and are able to taste them in a brew and perhaps even identify them by taste alone. You know the techniques that skilled brewers use to extract the full aroma from the flowers and you reach for the creations that have done this particularly well. The craft beer scene is a paradise for hopheads: some breweries use seven or more types of hops for a single beer and create hopped masterpieces that will knock the socks off even the most convinced hop connoisseur.
The team at the Dutch brewery Uiltje are among the hopheads who indulge their passion with hop-intensive beers. And hop fever has even infected their mascot, a white owl: On the Hopfenliebe beer goblet, you can see the owl in the brewery's logo, hugging a thick hop cone and giving it loving glances. We can understand that!
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