dirtypirate23
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This seems off the wall....has anyone used a vaporizor to flavor hops so when added to secondary fermentation they can have flavors??
I would think you would get a more pleasant, sustained, light hop aroma with the vapor than the boil.
As for adding flavor, lets say you wanted grape flavored hops. I dont know why, but you do. Why not just soak the hops in grape juice, and use the grape juice with the now soggy hops in secondary?
Well now, I just betrayed my own ignorance.
BECAUSE......Hops are naturally anti bacterial. Grapejuice or Grape "flavoring" to date, are decidedly NOT antibacterial.
...& here I thought vaping was for "the other hop"?...
Soooo, antibacterial hops + juice = non-antibacterial? I guess dry hopping kegs of beer to preserve them would be completely useless
Yes i am a dirty effing pirate....but look, being a chef we sometimes vaporize herbs to add aroma and deeper flavor to dishes...so I was thinking well if i want a deep say corriander flavor add it to the secondary plus scented hops for an extra kick....Does that seem crazy?
Sometimes I skip making and drinking beer altogether and just do a line of hops.
Yes thats exactly what i want to do ;-) lol, no i was just thinking about different flavor possibilities and extracting most flavor and with a vaporizor i can extract at higher puerer temps then just boiling or leaving in my secondary and possibly contracting either positive or negative ions that can make my beer cloudy
I tried so hard not to go there, rdr
Cheezydemon3 the vaporizor is a very intriguing machine. How it works is at extracts flavors (or pure thc in the netherlands) and tempuratures that you control. You first start out around 140 degrees and work your way up to 200 or higher depending on what your machine goes to. As far as my ion babble, when protein structure in beer (aka your different grains hops and filler) start to coagulate to form your wart, positive and negative ions (these are the particles that can make your beer un pure) form. In order for there to be no further particles in your beer, my theory is to vaporize flavors so its a pure beer
Some of it is important lol if you dig on the scientific background. I have done lots of research after one batch of my beer was not as clear as i wanted even though i added a clarifying agent during my secondary, thats when i found out that each protein coagulation produces negative and positive ions and different clarifying agents will remove one or the other
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