t2000kw
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Saaz? really? I didn't think that we had any Saaz in this country due to quarantine laws.
is it perhaps another variety being sold under the Saaz name?
BTW, the herbicide's name is Glyphosate, not Glyphosphate. Commonly used to spray and destroy large illegal Cannabis and Coca crops in the southern Americas.
Saaz, if it is real Czech Saaz, is a hop I'd like to grow. Can anyone document the authenticity of this hop variety?
I'll be here waiting
You're right about the spelling on the Roundup chemical. It does seem to have an alternate spelling, glyphosphate, but the most widely used term is glyphosate:
http://www.chemindustry.com/chemicals/555980.html
http://home.howstuffworks.com/question357.htm
But I just misread the label when I read it very quickly and added the "ph" to it, not knowing that the alternate spelling existed. Those are probably somewhat accepted because of the same common mistake I made, and if enough people use a spelling or a definition of a word, it eventually becomes acceptable, even if it's wrong. (Like the noun "impact," which seems to be acceptable now to use as a verb meaning "effect.")
The Monsanto company was caught falsifying data and information about the safety of the chemical. They did sloppy work in their reporting:
"an EPA reviewer stated after finding "routine falsification of data" that it was "hard to believe the scientific integrity of the studies when they said they took specimens of the uterus from male rabbits".
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup)
I didn't know that male rabbits had a uterus. :wacko:
Roundup works well for me but I try to minimize it's use on my property. Same for picloram (Tordon).
As for Saaz, I would have no idea which hops might be prohibited from being imported in Australia. I thought Saaz would be available there since it is in the US. It doesn't do as well as the Saaz hybrids like Tettnanger here. You may have some other "Saaz substitutes" available there, but some will say that there is no real substitute for Saaz. Tettnang grows better here. The "US Saaz" is, I believe the same as the Czech Saaz. But you get slightly different results for some hops when moved to a different region of tht world.
I know you can get Tettnang(er) there. Sterling, Crystal, Ultra are claimed to be close, and Hallertauer and Mt Hood are mentioned in a few places, but I think they are further away in their actual flavor/aroma profile. At some point you cross reference a substitute for a substitute and you end up getting pretty far away from the original hop.
I have second-year Crystal, which is doing well enough this year to probably give me enough hops to make beer with. Tomorrow I will be bringing a large upright freezer home (a giveaway from a friend) so I can use my smaller freezer for making lagers again, and I will try the Crystal in a Pilsner Urquell clone and see how well it does. I also have first-year Saaz and Tettnanger, which probably won't do much this year. I don't expect much from the Saaz in any case, but someone gave me the rhizomes to try. I expect Tettnanger to do well next year. My Saaz is replacing the Sterling I just removed since it wasn't doing as well as I had hoped.
Has anyone here used Canadian Redvine in a beer? I can get some of this for free next year but I am not sure it's worth getting rid of another hop for it since it's cohumulone content is very high. That would mean that the flavor would be rather harsh.
If you are not able to import Saaz with a simple order from outside the country, is there a way you can get them through an official channel through customs, with an inspection certificate or something? If you cold, and if there's enough interest there, maybe you could get a group purchase and split the extra cost of the legal formalities.