Recent content by snowmunkey9490

I'm not sure hop extract would be the right choice. I think hop extract is just the bittering alpha acids with as little other components as possible. When making the candy, you're trying to get the hop flavor with either just a bit or none of bitterness, but there are none of the aroma/flavor...

Well, the thing with IBUs is that because it only measures the amount of total isomerized alpha acids in the beer, it won't necessarily tell you how bitter the beer will taste. That might sound dumb, but it's mostly because of two things. First, which I'm guessing you already know from...