midnightmike
New Member
I am a Biochemist in a major pharmaceutical company, but also an avid homebrewer. I am very interested in growing my own hops, but was discouraged to see that they could only be used for flavor/aroma because of lack of information on the alpha acid content.
My job is to develop analytical methods for drug products, and so I took it upon myself to find a way to determine the alpha and beta acid content in hops. I have found a published method that looks as though it will work.
My question is this: Would there be enough interest in this for it to be worthwhile for me to purchase the equipment to routinely run this analysis? Would homebrewers be willing to spend 30 bucks or so to have me analyze their hops and give them the percent alpha and beta acids? The equipment and chemicals are costly and I just wanted to know if there would be enough interest to cover the costs to run the analysis.
Please let me know if anyone has any interest in a service like this.
Thanks,
Mike
My job is to develop analytical methods for drug products, and so I took it upon myself to find a way to determine the alpha and beta acid content in hops. I have found a published method that looks as though it will work.
My question is this: Would there be enough interest in this for it to be worthwhile for me to purchase the equipment to routinely run this analysis? Would homebrewers be willing to spend 30 bucks or so to have me analyze their hops and give them the percent alpha and beta acids? The equipment and chemicals are costly and I just wanted to know if there would be enough interest to cover the costs to run the analysis.
Please let me know if anyone has any interest in a service like this.
Thanks,
Mike