Hop Tea

[voodoochild7]

I know some folk boil there hops into a "tea" for hopping in the secondary but I've read that hops have a sedative, soporific quality as I have been suffering the insomnia lately and as I have some hop pellets that aren't going to be used until next weekend I said what the hey and made some tea. I put 1 table spoon of cenntenial hop pellets and put them in a coffee filter and tied it off into a tea bag. Steeped in in the microwave for 2 minutes then I took the bag out and in true brewing form dumped the soggy content into another coffe filter then I took the hoppy hot water and used it to sparge the soggy hops and get all that water into another mug. It's bitter but with some sweetener it's not bad and I fell a bit sleepy actually.

 

[God Emporer BillyBrew]

hmmm, a new home remedy to insomnia. Discovered on this board? This might be the start of something.

 

[Brewiz]

I have had the same problem before and use something similar to this, check out your local herb or vitamin shop. It works like a champ.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Puritans-Pride-...654177152QQcategoryZ67555QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[ian]

this post got me thinking about other uses for hops as I'm planning on starting a crop this year.

I found this link and it is pretty interesting, especially the "medicinal action and uses" portion near the bottom.

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/h/hops--32.html