I was gonna say if your getting harsh smoke flavor your smoking wrong. Also you can smoke things like cheese and veggies so I dont see a problem with actually destroying or burning the hops. I'm just curious is the AA would get messed with or not. If i did it it would be a could smoke (about...
I mean you can cold smoke them just like you cold smoke cheese. That would be probably the only way to do it. If no one knows anything about it maybe i'll try it out next brew. Maybe dehydrate/smoke some fresh hopps for an addition?
Anyone use them? Anyone heard of them?. Never done any reasearch. Just sitting here drinking a beer waiting for my next hop addition when the thought of smoked hopps popped into my head. Smoked grain is a thing so why not hopps?
"In regards to using a fermentor again after fermenting a sour beer; you can reuse it for clean beer after washing and sanitizing the fermentor. there are lots of sour beer brewers out there doing it, i'm doing it, so it's not just mere luck that i have never had a cross contamination in the 3...
When My keg kicks I literally rise with really hot water right away and push hot water through my lines. Takes like 10 min tops. Never had an infection. Push More hot water through the system before I sanitize when I'm ready to keg (20min).
Plus once you purge and put your beer on gas you...
Try not to sound like a dick but I would definatley protect myself. If they are going to make money off of something you created. It's only right you get fairly compensated. If they won't make a deal then maybe just outline your recipe and leave key parts out like amount of grain, mash temps...