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[oblivious]

Its usually golden tassel/first gold as they are favour for ornamental use , but make a nice wet hop beer too

[Rathbaner]

I think it's prima donna

I wrote to Lidl and asked. Here's the reply

We refer to your query regarding the variety of Humulus that we recently sold. Our supplier has confirmed the variety is "Challenger".
We hope that this answers your query. Should you have any further questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact us.
Assuring you of our best intentions at all times.
Regards, A. Harrison

Quality Assurance Department

[phynes1]

Deadly, Great work!

I wonder if they know what the %AA is?

[johnrm]

Lidl will hopefully do their special in October on Spectrophotometers. 
Disappointed I missed out on these last year.

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=4172.0

[Frequent Sequence]

 

Lidl will hopefully do their special in October on Spectrophotometers. 
Disappointed I missed out on these last year.

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=4172.0

[Fatcontro11er]

The plant doesn't have a AA value it's the hops it produces that has the AA and that varies from year to year on the same plant! Sun, rain, soil type and a whole host of factors influence, in fact there could be a range of AA values in the hops from the one plant!

[phynes1]

Challenger has an AA that ranges from 6.5-8.5. Go with the average (7.5), you cant go wrong!!!

[Simon_]

It can be a bit of an interesting novelty making a beer with hops you grow in your back garden but don't expect anything amazing. Expect spiders, green fly and a pain in the bollocks.
If anything it'll give you a new found appreciation that good fresh bought hops aren't actually all that expensive because there is value added in how they are processed.

[irish_goat]

Possible bargain at Aldi. Arcana Irish Red Ale from Italy (6.7%) comes in a fliptop bottle. It's a shorter, stubbier bottle than the standard German ones too, which I think is better. No idea what the beer is like. There was also no price tag available.

[Bazza]

Possible bargain at Aldi. Arcana Irish Red Ale from Italy (6.7%) comes in a fliptop bottle. It's a shorter, stubbier bottle than the standard German ones too, which I think is better. No idea what the beer is like. There was also no price tag available.

Had one of those out of Lidl recently. As fair as I remember it wasn't that bad; nothing earth-shattering. Can't give you a price either, as it was my wife who picked it up for me.
Good if you're collecting 500ml flip tops!

-Barry

[KDeath]

They have a blonde ale I think as well, I got em for the bottles but both beers were fairly meh. They're doing decent glass sets, tulip, stout and teku-type glasses, €4 for a pack of 2.

[Gerryjo]

Have had both the Blonde and Amber and actually are not too bad.LIDL have also a few IPA's on the shelf but would not be so keen.
Picked up another two today as they are quite sessionable plus the bottle so bonus...

Gerry

[Shane Phelan]

Decent price for a temperature controller. Valid for the next 14 hours.

[johnrm]

Looks Dodgy to me. They don't show the front of the controller!

[pob]

Looking at pics, it appears that it only has one switch for controlling, i.e. it can only heat or cool, not both at the same time (other connector will be for thermocouple probe)