HOPS AND HOP PRODUCTS OVERVIEW

• TNS Overview

• The Hop Industry

• What is a Hop?

• What is Hop Essential Oil?

• Hop Inspiration Range

• Benefits and Application

Totally Natural Solutions Ltd

Overview

• Specialists in natural hop aromas and flavours

• Manufacturing capability

• Product Development

• Operating globally with distribution in USA, UK, Australia, NZ, Scandinavia, Baltics and Brazil.

• ISO9001, Kosher and HACCP approvals in place

Products and Services

Products

• Dry hop aromas

• Late hop flavours

• Hop Bittering Products- iso alpha acids

• Hop Pellets

Capability

• Distillation, Fractionation, Separation capability

• Blending and Packing facilities

• Technical capability- laboratory facilities, services and analysis

Benefits

• A commitment to providing products of the highest standard, safely and with respect for the environment

• Easy to use, 100% hop, reproducible

• Emphasis on natural, green technologies and clean labelling

The Hop Industry

~100te hops grown per year, 75% in US and Germany

Four hop companies market ~ 80% of the world‘s crop with

market shares :

Barth Haas Group 35%

Steiner 25%

HVG 10%

Yakima Chief/HU 8-10%

The remaining 20%: small dealers, local cooperatives

World Hop Growing

The Hop Industry

Hops have an enormous flavor and aroma effect in beer but cost in use small. Hop quality is essential.

Brewing Trends in Last Decade

• Emergence of craft brewing – dynamic, innovative

• Increased popularity of intense hoppy beer styles

• Breeding of new flavor hop varieties (with high oil contents and intense hop character) also increased.

• Hop aroma and flavour character poorly characterized (cf alpha)

The Hop Market

Demand increasing:

Craft breweries USA, consumer taste

Supplies reduced:

Czech Republic and German Hallertau regions

weather crop failure, USA irrigation issues

Result:

2015 is a crop shortage year!!!

Hop Bines in a Field

Humulus Lupus

Hop Cross Section

What is a Hop?

α

β

Hop oils

Hop polyphenols

Lipids and waxes

Water, Cellulose

etc.

Alpha acid

Beta acid

• Bitterness

• Hop Aroma

• Differentiation of beer

types and brands

• Foam Enhancement

• Microbiological

Stability

• Contribution to body &

mouthfeel of a beer

• Improvement of haze

and flavour stability

Alpha acids

Beta acids

Hop oils

Polyphenols

Waxes and steroids

Proteins

Cellulose

moisture

Monosaccharides

Pectin's

Minerals (Ash)

2 - 18

1 - 10

0.5 - 3

2 - 5

tr - 25

15

40 - 50

6 - 10

2

2

10

% w/w

Is this a hop product?

Hop Aroma and Flavour

• Comes from the essential oils

• Composition of oil varies with hop variety

• 3 distinct groups- hydrocarbon (insoluble), oxygenated and sulphur containing.

• Affected by alcohol content, malt type and yeast – beer matrix

• IAA content changes aroma, taste and mouthfeel

Hop Oil Components

Hop oil

Hydrocarbons

Monoterpenes (Myrcene)

(ß-Caryophylene, α Humulene, Farnesene)

Aliphatic hydrocarbons

Oxygen compounds

Terpene alcohols (linalool, geraniol)

Sesquiterpene alcohols (humulenol I +II, humulol)

others (alcohols, epoxides, ketones, ester)

Sulfur compounds

Thio esters

others

Sulfides (DMS)

Sesquiterpenes

75% 25%

Ref: Sharpe and Laws

Example of chromatogram of hop pellets (cv. Magnum)

Oxygenatedmonoterpenoids, esters, alcohols,

ketones etc.

Sesquiterpene hydrocarbons

Monoterpene hydrocarbons

Oxygenatedsesquiterpenoids, esters, alcohols,

ketones, etc.

RT: 9.00 - 61.30 SM: 7B

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Time (min)

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TIC MS magnum_pellets_a

β-caryophyllene

α-humulene

β-myrcene

Principle Odour Compounds in Hops

Spicy/Herbal Piney/Woody Floral Citrus Fruity/Tropical Epoxides Myrcene Nerol Limonene Linalool

Eudesmol Beta-Pinene Geraniol Citral Esters

Farnesol Alpha Pinene Geranyl Acetate Citronellol

Caryophyllene Oxide Farnesene Linalool

Caryophyllene Citronellol Sulphur Compounds

Alpha Terpineol

Humulene

• But what about the minor hop components?

• Synergistic Effects in beer flavour matrix

• Flavour Thresholds

Addition in Brewing Process

Mashing

Lauter tun Kettle Whirlpool

Ferm

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tation

Tan

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Brightbeertank

Filter1Filter

2 Maturation tank

Traditional hop products added

here

Hop bittering, aroma and flavour added here

The Hop Inspiration Range

HopInspiration

Range

HopAlpha

(bittering)

HopSensation

(flavour)

HopBurst

(aroma)

HopShot

(fractions)HopPlus

(botanicals)

Hop Inspiration Range

Benefits

• Product utilisation improved

• Reproducible flavour and aroma addition

• Novel hop fraction

• Differentiate single wort streams

• Don’t affect haze or foam stability

• Light stable, no pesticide residue carry-over, no nitrates.

Usage

• Added post fermentation to bright beer

• Typical dose 15g/HL (range 5-40g/HL)

• Stable, fully soluble in beer, shelf life 12 months

• Legislation – EU approved as a natural hop extract conforming with (EC)1334/2008.

HopShot

Fractionated hop oil giving Late Hop character

• Individual character of distinct groups- spicy, floral, herbal, woody, citrus, fruity

• Varietal hop product- cascade, saaz, target

• Beer Style products- lager, ale, IPA

• Varietal types –”Citra, Galaxy, Saaz” types from hop fractions

• New patented, solvent free, process

• All natural product, 100% hop

• Added post fermentation hence no loss onto yeast in fermentation, no loss by CO2 evolution

HopBurst

Delivers “burst” of dry hop aroma.

• Varietal whole oil solubilised in

food grade carrier

• Retains volatile component and

hop character of variety

• Easy to use, no spent hop to

remove, no long steep times, no

losses of beer in spent hops.

Hop Inspiration

HopSensation

• Specific Blends of hop varietal oils combines late and dry hop character and hop fractions eg spicy:floral:cascade

• Emphasis is on balance and application to beer style

HopPlus

• Blends hop fractions with other botanicals (vanilla, chocolate, ginger, chilli) to give unique flavour profiles. Single additions, reproducible flavours.

HopAlpha

• All provide standardised method of adding IBU. Tetra also provides some foam head retention. Hexa product now developed.

Benefits of the Hop Inspiration Range

• Independent addition of aroma and flavour

• Consistent quality, independent of crop variation

• Easy to use, reproducible.

• Single wort stream – differentiating

• 100% utilisation

• Beer development reduced – quicker, unique

• Can be pasteurised without loss of flavour

• Economics

• Supply

Cost in Use

• 100% hop utilization in the brewing process, when compared to ~ 33% hop utilization from hop pellets

• Cost in use will be less when compared to hop cones

• Additional benefits of capacity, throughput, lower beer loses

• Cost exercise:

• TNS Hop fractions vs. Hop Pellets/Hop Cones

Brewery Product Ave Dose Rate Ave £/kg £/hlt beer

Craft Hops 300grm/hlt 20 6.00

HopBurst 20grm/hlt 85 1.70

Global Hops 100g/hlt 15 1.50

HopShot 15g/hlt 60 0.90

Applications

• Seasonal beers

• Mainstream brands

• Undesirable flavours

• Rationalisation of brew streams

• Sales and marketing (packaging)

For More Information ContactTotally Natural Solutions Ltd.

Colin WilsonManaging Director

Totally Natural Solutions LtdUnit 3a Arnold Business Park,

Branbridges Road, East Peckham,TN12 5LG

Tel: + 44 (0) 1622 872105Email: colin.wilson@totallynaturalsolutions.comane,

Newland,

Nr Malvern. WR13 5BB