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Octavius · 07-02-2009, 02:20 PM

Hi folks,
Anyone tried it?
Say, a hop pellet (or whole flower) in each bottle.
Cheers!

Trubadour · 07-02-2009, 02:25 PM

Not a good idea - the taste of beer with the hops still in it is bad.

Sigafoos · 07-02-2009, 02:28 PM

I just listened to the Basic Brewing Radio where someone wrote in and said they tried it and it was horrible; a ton of sediment and they said it foamed like crazy too.

yellowthere · 07-02-2009, 04:21 PM

I've done it with a couple of cones of fuggle (into an english IPA) per bottle. It's not great. I tasted it after 2 weeks and it was really vegetably. By 6 weeks it was just so wrong it was ridiculous. It gushes like you would not believe. After mine gushed for about 1 min. there was only 1/2 the bottle left.

Don't do it, but if you do only do a couple of bottles and pour through some kind of strainer.

Octavius · 07-02-2009, 05:10 PM

Wow.
Thanks for putting me right.
Cheers!

***Yooper*** · 07-02-2009, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Octavius

Wow.
Thanks for putting me right.
Cheers!

Do you have any hops pellets, extra, just laying around? To see what we're saying, go eat one.

Um, yeah, I did that. It smelled so good I thought it would taste really good. Kinda like vanilla extract smells so good I thought I should taste it (but I was about 5 years old in the vanilla extract incident). The hop pellet made me unable to taste a thing for about 2 days. That is NOT something you want to experience in a 12 ounce bottle of beer, plus it'll break up into sludge in the bottle.

ajwillys · 07-02-2009, 07:07 PM

Wasn't there a thread where someone put a hop cone in the glass and then poured the beer over it and said it was delicious? You could do this.

Edcculus · 07-02-2009, 07:35 PM

My thought has always been to serve with a hop cone, like a garnish. Much fresher without the gunk in a bottle. I can see how it might get a little grassy in the glass, but I guess thats the point if using this method.

david_42 · 07-02-2009, 10:06 PM

Hop cones tend to turn into wads of slime after a while. Just top a pint with a couple cones.

Trubadour · 07-03-2009, 02:35 AM

I recently dry hopped an IIPA that was a bit too full in the carboy and it started making it's way up the airlock as the hops expanded, so I sucked about a half a pint out into a glass with a turkey baster to make room and figured I'd just drink it. I really wish I hadn't tasted it (it had quite a few hops in my "sample"). Kinda like Yooper said, it made any beer I drank that night taste bad.