Hop Water?

[Phunhog]

So a friend gave me a bottle of commercially produced hop water from http://www.h2ops.com/. It was really good and a great alternative to beer when you need a hop fix. No alcohol so I can drink them at work! Of course now I want to "brew" my own. Anybody ever experimented with making "hop water"?

 

[clone63]

I'm not even a hop head and I'm sad about the beer that could have made.

 

[thunderwagn]

I think it sounds perfect for the weeks that I'm on call. Sometimes I buy non-alcohol beer during those times, but most of it's swill to say the least.

 

[cougfan97]

....bump

Anyone ever try this? My pregnant in-law loves this stuff and I thought it might be easy to make with my corny kegs.

 

[shoreman]

Do you keg?thats the only way to do this is force carb.

Look up hop tea in a French press.

I don’t go over 170degrees with the hop teas b/c they get super bitter.

Fill keg, add hop tea, chill & carbonate

 

[eric19312]

I’d be interested to see results of a home brew attempt at this. I can see all sorts of challenges...no sweetness from malt to balance any bittering...potential issues with contamination due to no alcohol, but no sugar for the bugs to eat so maybe ok...

 

[day_trippr]

I read through the Faq section of the H2OPS site and was surprised to read that boiling was involved.
I had assumed they'd stay below 170°F or perhaps even lower for whatever warm-side process they used.

Hopefully this doesn't catch on quickly if at all lest the hop supply chain to us last-in-liners be disrupted...

Cheers!

 

[cougfan97]

Do you keg?thats the only way to do this is force carb.

Look up hop tea in a French press.

I don’t go over 170degrees with the hop teas b/c they get super bitter.

Fill keg, add hop tea, chill & carbonate

I do keg so I can force carb.

Might be worth a try.

 

[IZS]

Cracked it!
Lagunitas hop clone recipe with the "secret ingredient" for "Biotransformation"

Per gallon
1 Table spoon lime juice
1 Table spoon lemon juice
3 grams of your favorite hops (in a loose tea ball or small muslin bag)
⅛ teaspoon marmite dissolved in hot water

Method

Dissolve the marmite (or vegimite if you're a savage) in the hot water
put the juice in the keg, put the hops in the tea ball put it in the keg,
if you are using a bag weigh it down with a few pennies soaked in starsan.
Pour in the dissolved marmite. Fill the keg with water of your choice.
I use what comes out of my tap. Seal the keg hold at 10psi for 3 days.
Drink or bottle and drink.