{{Short description|Belgian variety of hops}} {{refimprove|date=February 2015}} [[File:Coigneau 1909 beschrijving.jpg|thumb|160px|Coigneau hops pictured in 1909]] '''Coigneau''' ({{IPA|fr|kwaɲo}}) is a Belgian [[List of hop varieties|variety]] of [[hops|hop]] which was massively cultivated in the Flemish [[Aalst, Belgium|Aalst]]-[[Asse]] area near Brussels in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. Because of the light bitterness the Coigneau was during a considerable period of time the favorite hop used for [[Lambic]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lambicandwildale.com/tag/coigneau/ |title=CoigneauLambic and Wild Ale |accessdate=2013-09-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919033931/http://lambicandwildale.com/tag/coigneau/ |archivedate=2013-09-19 }}, Lambic and Wild Ale</ref> beer brewed in the [[Pajottenland]] region of Belgium (southwest of Brussels). Traditional lambic brewing required aged hops but utilized fresh hops as well, preferably in a 50%/50% proportion. The addition of fresh hops was possible because the local hop variety Coigneau contained low alpha-acids and thus added little to the bitterness of the resulting brew.<ref>[http://www.barthhaasgroup.com/johbarth/images/pdfs/Hop%201929-1930.pdf Hop Report for 1929/30] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131027024912/http://www.barthhaasgroup.com/johbarth/images/pdfs/Hop%201929-1930.pdf |date=2013-10-27 }}, Joh. Barth & Sohn hophandel, 18 juli 1930, p 10.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jXirBQAAQBAJ&dq=Coigneau+Poperinge&pg=PT78], Wild Brews, Jeff Sparrow 2005</ref>
==History== Historically, the name Coigneau is derived from the farmer Franciscus Coigneau who is recognized as first cultivating this hop in the late eighteenth century on his fields in the village of [[Teralfene]] in the [[Aalst, Belgium|Aalst]]-[[Asse]] area. ==References== {{Reflist}}
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