Lost Brews
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I am looking for unusual hopping methods I can experiment with? What is the weirdest way you have added hops to you beer?
We did some experimenting and some taste-testing (by far, the best part of our jobs!) and came up with a continual hopping regimen. We McGuyver-ed an old-fashioned football game (the kind that vibrated) to slowly, but surely dump the pellets into the beer during the length entire boil - we really liked the result and the 60 Minute IPA was born (the boil time for that beer is..... ta-da... 60 minutes long)! We feel the beer retains the best of the hops flavor and aroma without a hop-wallop in-your-face assault.
The football game didn't last too long (it got wet), so we built Sir Hops Alot (a machine we invented that perfected the continual hop regimen) for our 50-bbl brewhouse. When we upgraded to our 100-bbl brewhouse, Sir Hops Alot was retired and we brought in our latest invention Sofa King Hoppy (a bigger, badder invention that allows for continual hopping).
david_42 said:After two weeks, it started tasting like grass (as in Kentucky bluegrass).
Bobby_M said:Hmm, hop experiments during a hop shortage? I'll stick to getting the best utilization that I can so that my batches so hit $50 each soon.
I agree, I am not presently haveing a short age of hops i have enough to make the beers I want.niquejim said:Why brew if you don't brew what you like
Interesting are you sugesting that i add a couple of hop flowers directly to the glass of beer?Special Ed said:How about serving your IPA with fresh hop buds on the edge of the glass. What better way to add hop aroma!
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