Will it work? Forgot early hops, making bitter hop tea

[goodmojo]

1 gal water
1 oz magnum hops
2 cups DME

doing a 60 min boil with a goal of 1/2 gallon boil off. Chilling then adding to under bittered beer. Worth it?or should I have bought some bittering agent ?

 

[goodmojo]

Wow. I just read the other post from today on forgotten hops. I'll report back on success of tea

 

[runningweird]

1. what kind of beer are you making?
2. how much bitterness is it supposed to have?
3. look up hop bursting, you can get plenty of bitterness from late addition hops

 

[goodmojo]

Porter:I did a partial mash version of this All Grain Bee Cave Porter recipe

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f126/bee-cave-brewery-robust-porter-56768/

2: unsure based on that info

3. ok. thanks!

1. what kind of beer are you making?
2. how much bitterness is it supposed to have?
3. look up hop bursting, you can get plenty of bitterness from late addition hops

 

[goodmojo]

Sounds like i should jsut taste it. the 20 minute panic dump of all hops may have been sufficient if hop blasting works like some say. I'll taste and decide. Thanks for info

 

[JohnSand]

Let us know what happens, but it worked for me. I tried using a small tea infuser for hops in a saison. The hops swelled to water-tight preventing flow through. After the wort was in the fermenter, I made a quart of hop tea with a little lme at 100 IBU. Mixed it in, got good balance.

 

[goodmojo]

Update: I ended up reading about hop blasting and decided to not add the hop tea since I had panicked and dumped all of the hops in about 20min before end of boil. It came out great. So there you go, still no legit info on a hop tea other than maybe how to make it unfortunately.

 

[remman4]

I have successfully made hop tea to bitter an overly sweet beer, it wasn't quite the same but it worked