Would like to start off, I am new to brewing, I have successfully brewed 2 batches, with another ready to be bottled.
I was toying around the idea of buying some rhizomes to attempt to grow my own hops. When I found out one of the local breweries was giving away a cascade rhizome to anyone in the area, but the catch is that you have to bring in the 1st years harvest and they will make a communal batch out of it and you get to be at the tasting of it. So once I found that out I felt obligated to.
The question that I have though is pertains to the whole leaf hops, from what I have seen so far is that more whole leafs hops are needed than pellets due to the surface area and the length of time it the wort takes to reach the lupulins I think.
Then I read how pellet hops are made, which sounded like there were essentially ground up and pushed through an extrusion die to form the pellet shape and then stored I believe.
So I was thinking, would it be possible to break up or grind the whole leaf hops to increase the efficiency of them?
Like I said I am new to brewing and I haven't ever posted a thread before so I am also new to that. Thank you to anyone that might be able to shed some light on this.
I was toying around the idea of buying some rhizomes to attempt to grow my own hops. When I found out one of the local breweries was giving away a cascade rhizome to anyone in the area, but the catch is that you have to bring in the 1st years harvest and they will make a communal batch out of it and you get to be at the tasting of it. So once I found that out I felt obligated to.
The question that I have though is pertains to the whole leaf hops, from what I have seen so far is that more whole leafs hops are needed than pellets due to the surface area and the length of time it the wort takes to reach the lupulins I think.
Then I read how pellet hops are made, which sounded like there were essentially ground up and pushed through an extrusion die to form the pellet shape and then stored I believe.
So I was thinking, would it be possible to break up or grind the whole leaf hops to increase the efficiency of them?
Like I said I am new to brewing and I haven't ever posted a thread before so I am also new to that. Thank you to anyone that might be able to shed some light on this.