Scholarship

We have been discussing the Scholar recipe over the past few weeks - in particular we have been looking at increasing the hop character to "striking".  Both of our beers are very well hopped but Scholar is principally an English hopped beer and the Fuggles and First Gold lack the impact on the nose and palate that the Nelson Sauvin we use in Prospect delivers.  So what to do?  Well, we have reduced the late Fuggles slightly and added a massive amount of another English hop - one with a much higher oil content.  We will cask it on Tuesday and it will start going into the market from late January.  See if you can tell the difference?