Heiko Hagen wrote:


They don't appear to use hops for flavouring in N. America and Australia,


** America produces 28,000 tonnes of hops per year - practically all of it going into beer. Only Germany produces more, with 34,000 tonnes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops#C...on_and_harvest

Thing is, they probably don't use enough of it in each barrel to suit you.

Small and craft brewers generally use a lot more malt and hops per barrel than the big commercial ones.



..... Phil