I crushed the pellets once they had thawed out, then did a 3 min wash as recommended which worked much better than shaking frozen whole pellets in a jar of vodka, which didn't even change the color of the vodka.
... then strain through a coffee filter ....
Revival an old post.I know this is kind of an old thread and the focus is about creating hop extract for aroma, but it is the most extensive of the hop extraction threads so I figured it was the best place to post about making hop extract for bittering.
I've tried so many hops so I have well over a pound of pellet hops that I will probably never use and figured I could make some hop extract out of it. I have 191.2 proof grain alcohol from Technical Reserve that my sister bought me because they told her it could be used for extracting hops.
Just figured I'd see if anybody had some success or a good method that produced something somewhat close to CO2 extract using pellet hops and grain alcohol.
I did look a bit into CO2 extraction systems, but their is a LOT of pressure involved there and I figured too much effort for a hobbyist.
Cool. You can put some high proof alcohol or vodka in your extract, and then use direct in the beer or at bottling. Just test before, because it will be very concentrated.I'll contribute. I used steam extraction to pull a vial of hop oil out of 5 ounces of Citra hop buds. Result was very bitter, but I have no idea if it would have been useful in beermaking. You can see the hop oil collecting in the separatory trap there in second pic. That's a Graham condenser, a soxhlet would be better I think, but I did not have one. I did look a bit into CO2 extraction systems, but their is a LOT of pressure involved there and I figured too much effort for a hobbyist.
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