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com. Hey, welcome back to another episode of the Brulosophy podcast. I'm your host, Marshall

Schott, and today Matt Del Fiako will be joining me to talk about first word hopping. A really simple method

I first heard about years ago that said to impart a smoother bitterness compared to adding

hops at the beginning of the boil, it was kind of the standard approach. And interestingly, some people

claim that it even has some like flavor and aroma carryover as well. Yeah I mean this is a

technique that I first read about when I was researching you know making a better

check logger and people really talk about like that first word hop edition is providing a more rounded bitterness with a lot more you know some some fuller

Flavor and aroma characteristics as well. I'm excited to talk about this stuff because I don't quite understand how it could do that, but I know that we've, you know, you've been digging into some of the history of first where hopping and stuff. I think it's going to be really interesting and Stan Hieronymus recently

wrote about some new research performed at Oregon State University that I'm looking forward to

kind of getting into it. But before we do that we've got some stuff to let everybody know about first.

I mentioned it a while back in the last episode that we've got a new contributor,

Jason Cypriani, and I'm really excited to have them on board

and just kind of want to make more of an official announcement.

You know, he reached out to me months ago before Homebru Khan 2017.

I strung him along a little bit to see, well, it wasn't intentional, but he kind of proved his interest by sticking around and he continued to talk with me and I learned that he's a really cool guy.

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