Por Hops Aa% Too Low?

[patto]

Hi fellas,

Got some Pride of Ringwood pellets from my local brewshop yesterday.

Just noticed the packet says 5.8% AA... I thought POR hops were usually around 10%?

Got me wondering if the shop has got it wrong on the label?

Has anybody had them this low before?

Cheers

Mike

 

[haysie]

I have never seen POR at 5.5%....... <_< Are they brown?

Recently we had a batch of Challenger at around 11% from an above sponsor and the general % is around 5%.

Hmmm, the mind boggles

 

[goomboogo]

I'm guessing they've been mis-labelled. So you've either got POR and the aa% is wrong or the aa% is correct and it's a hop other than POR. I'm guessing the packet didn't specify what year they were harvested. How were they packaged?

 

[Wolfy]

Got me wondering if the shop has got it wrong on the label?

I would suggest they got it wrong.
As far as I'm aware much of the local crop comes via just 1 or two suppliers and so if you can't check with the shop I'm sure you could confirm with one of them.

 

[patto]

Thanks for the replys guys.

Will go back to the brewshop and check with them.

Im pretty sure its a mix up with the labeling.

Cheers

Mike