Until Recently, I've written off the idea of growing hops at home because I really prefer pellet to whole hops. Pellet hops just work much better with my system. So after researching pelletization of homegrown hops, it seems that such a process would not be feasible but I'm looking at an alternative.
What we really want out of a hop cone is the yellow lupulin powder, and I notice that much of this powder falls out (all over my hands, etc.) when handling hops. Why not dry our home-grown hops as normal and then attempt to separate the lupulin from the rest of the cone. A possible methodology would be to cut the bottom off a bucket and replace it with a sieve of some sort with a receptacle to catch the good stuff.
As far as usage of lupulin powder, one could weigh the hops before and after lupulin extraction. I'm not sure how well lupulin stores.
Anyone tried this or have some idea whether or not it would work?
What we really want out of a hop cone is the yellow lupulin powder, and I notice that much of this powder falls out (all over my hands, etc.) when handling hops. Why not dry our home-grown hops as normal and then attempt to separate the lupulin from the rest of the cone. A possible methodology would be to cut the bottom off a bucket and replace it with a sieve of some sort with a receptacle to catch the good stuff.
As far as usage of lupulin powder, one could weigh the hops before and after lupulin extraction. I'm not sure how well lupulin stores.
Anyone tried this or have some idea whether or not it would work?