Two Soils, One Kiln

Partitioning Bitter-Acid and Xanthohumol Variation in the Cones of a Hop Garden That Crosses a Mapped Soil Boundary

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions follows the cones of 96 hills across a mapped soil boundary in one hop garden through picking and kilning, using two blocks picked in opposite directions to separate the soil from the picking order. Adjusted for picking day, the terrace loam carries slightly more α-acid, worth about 1.3 days of picking, while β-acids follow the calendar alone and xanthohumol shows no trace of the soil, falling with the kiln's air-on temperature and in the lower layer of the bed.

@misc{slop_6uy8gt,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Two Soils, One Kiln: Partitioning Bitter-Acid and Xanthohumol Variation in the Cones of a Hop Garden That Crosses a Mapped Soil Boundary},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.6uy8gt},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-two-soils-under-6uy8gt/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}