Fixing reg beer

[Merleti]

After brewing beer you lose interest in common beers. I think I've found a fix. I've been crushing hop pellet and dropping them in common beer. Just pick a hop you like and use with general beer with an open glass. Using hops with a good aroma and bitter is my choice such as chinook. Hope this helps you like it helped me.

Choose your hop flavor wisely after all you are a Homebrewer!

 

[Cyclman]

This is a common way to "taste test" the varietals of hops.

But it's better not to support the mega breweries, IMO, you can almost always find something craft on a menu or in a store. If not, there's always wine.

 

[Merleti]

Never heard of it before. I though I a genius when I tried it. I guess I'm just catching up.
As far as wine. I realized I could not afford what I liked. When my sister got married she gave me a taste test. I picked Stag's Leap SLV 1997.
I wish I could say I can always find a craft beer available. I see you are from CO you lucky dog. Florida is an anti craft beer state. You can't even get a growler filled...Legally.

 

[TopherM]

Florida is an anti craft beer state.

Speak for yourself over there in Orlando. We have a craft beer explosion in the Tampa Bay area. Craft beer festivals almost every weekend, a huge homebrew community, over a dozen new breweries over the last two years with several more in the works. About 20 new craft beer bars open within 10 miles of me in the last few years.

There have even been articles in Huffington Post and other national publications noting Florida, and especially Tampa Bay, as the current hotbed for craft brew in the country. Sorry to hear about Orlando, but Florida as a whole is certainly not an anti-craft beer state!

can't even get a growler filled...Legally

You can certainly get a growler filled....legally. Any growler up to 32 oz, any growlers over 1 gallons, just not the ubiquitous 64oz growler, but there is a State Senator fighting that old bluelaw as we speak.

 

[Merleti]

TropherM sorry about labeling Florida. Orlando has one brewery and they told me it was illegal to fill growlers in Florida. Look's like I need to get over to Tampa.

 

[DrunkleJon]

just be sure to check your teeth for hop particles before turning to talk with the lovely lass down the bar.

 

[Nightshade]

I have done this by putting a measure of hops into a coffee press then puring beer over it and letting it "steep" for a few minutes then pressing and pouring the beer into a glass.

It's a great way to see how a certain style reacts or tastes with an added hop presence instead of brewing it and finding out it doesn't work.

 

[Merleti]

DrunkleJon
Good point since this is your typical restaurant blues. I can only imagine what it looks like on the other side when your all hopped up.

Nightshade
Hop Pressed what a night cap and as you say saving you money on research and development on that next brew.