Adding hopps to **** beer

[coldbrewnoob]

When i get lazy, or between batches and because Im low on cash I often make a small batch of hop tea and add to my cheap crap beer, to keep me from feeling like Im drinking cheap crap beer.

It's quite suprising how much better it taste. Keystone (the least flavorful of all beers) gets so much better when we add a tiny bit of nice hop tea. I use a 1/4 to 1/2 oz hops per 2-3 cups water boil for 2 minutes and bottle and chill. Add a tblspn or so to each beer. Makes cheap beer taste somewhat like quality stuff.

Am i the only one who does this?

 

[treacheroustexan]

When i get lazy, or between batches and because Im low on cash I often make a small batch of hop tea and add to my cheap crap beer, to keep me from feeling like Im drinking cheap crap beer.

It's quite suprising how much better it taste. Keystone (the least flavorful of all beers) gets so much better when we add a tiny bit of nice hop tea. I use a 1/4 to 1/2 oz hops per 2-3 cups water boil for 2 minutes and bottle and chill. Add a tblspn or so to each beer. Makes cheap beer taste somewhat like quality stuff.

Am i the only one who does this?

I have heard of people doing similar, but sometimes I enjoy the cheap beer... Coors/Keystone Light, Strohs and PBR.. can't go wrong. I kind of want to try this though just for the heck of it.

 

[fimpster]

I have never done that, but there are people trying to get rich off the idea.

 

[coldbrewnoob]

I have never done that, but there are people trying to get rich off the idea.

Who would get rich off that?

 

[fimpster]

Who would get rich off that?

I highly doubt they will. I was just pointing out that someone wants to try.

 

[coldbrewnoob]

I highly doubt they will. I was just pointing out that someone wants to try.

You never know but hops tea migh be something.

 

[Gerry_P]

Decades ago, Bert Grant used to carry around a vial of hop oil for the same reason "Hop Theory" made little tea bags. It was cool when he did it.

Edit: For the record, I like the op's hop tea idea.

 

[MDExile]

When I first returned to brewing, I was explaining to my son about the small apparent differences between beer styles.

We looked through recipes in The Complete Joy Of Homebrewing. Some recipes had the same ingredients with the only difference being ale yeast or lager yeast.

I was extract/steeping grains at the time, and we were making a porter. As an experiment, we opened a can of whichever light American was left over from a recent party and added some of the liquid from the steeping grains. We were both amazed at the change that it made. He even suggested marketing it similar to MIO, except for beer. I told him that I thought it would be less expensive just to buy better beer.

 

[coldbrewnoob]

When I first returned to brewing, I was explaining to my son about the small apparent differences between beer styles.

We looked through recipes in The Complete Joy Of Homebrewing. Some recipes had the same ingredients with the only difference being ale yeast or lager yeast.

I was extract/steeping grains at the time, and we were making a porter. As an experiment, we opened a can of whichever light American was left over from a recent party and added some of the liquid from the steeping grains. We were both amazed at the change that it made. He even suggested marketing it similar to MIO, except for beer. I told him that I thought it would be less expensive just to buy better beer.

Nice! In this case i have lots of hops in the fridge and some getting old, so for me my net cost is zero until i replace the hops. A $2.50cent 40 oz is yuck beerand super cheap, and adding a little hop tea it can taste relativly ok. Not great, as putting lipstip on a pig, dont make it beautiful just better.

I know im probably a heritic for saying as much.