Ok, crazy idea...

[Cammanron]

A few years back there was a kickstarter for a company called Hop Theory that was trying to sell hops in tea bags you would put in a glass of beer.
https://uncrate.com/hop-theory-beer-enhancers/
I'm thinking it could actually work if you brewed a light lager for the summer and didn't have room for a keg of hoppy beer. But instead of putting a single pellet in a glass, I'd get a kitchen canister that a had a lid that sealed like a big Grolsch bottle, fill it almost all the way with beer and add the hops, orange peel and coriander in a metal tea ball. Close it up and keep it cold for about a half hour and see what happens. You'd lose some carbonation, but not all.
If you wanted to be thrifty, you could even save the hops, since they haven't been boiled, and toss them in your next brew. I have some lager on tap, and my keg of IPL just kicked so I might try it later today.

See?? I'm not THAT crazy.... Now I gotta tell my wife she's wrong...

 

[NickTheGreat]

I have tried this. Added a few pellets to a glass of Bud Light. I don't think it added anything. I think it may work if you crushed it up, but like mentioned I didn't want to do that.

My kids like these Kool-Aid squirt bottles things, that I recall somebody made a "hop version" at one time. But I don't think it ever worked out.

 

[mendelec]

Last season, after I'd vacuum packed up the season's hop harvest, I noticed that the container I'd used to weigh out 2 oz portions was fairly yellow, sticky, and aromatic. So, I gave it a rinse with some 196 proof alcohol. Ended up with a small container of yellow hop extract, which I used to improve some FYB I had about. Worked very nicely, but the shelf life was short. Lost its aroma in a couple months, as I recall. It was a clear-ish plastic bottle, so I wonder if light played a role in the shelf life. I might try again and use a brown glass vial when harvest time rolls around this season.

 

[bracconiere]

It was a clear-ish plastic bottle,

90% ethanol will dissolve plastic! definitely use glass next time!

 

[mendelec]

Pretty sure it is/was a polypropylene food safe container. Regardless, not one that couldn't stand up to the solvent. But, thanks for your concern. It's still sitting on the shelf nearly a year later. Now flavorless and forgotten, but quite undissolved.

 

[bracconiere]

Pretty sure it is/was a polypropylene food safe container. Regardless, not one that couldn't stand up to the solvent. But, thanks for your concern. It's still sitting on the shelf nearly a year later. Now flavorless and forgotten, but quite undissolved.

well, my experience with 190 proof and test cylinders....i switched to glass....

edit: not because i care about my heath, but the plastic ones would get deformed, and cloudy......i have seen the wonders of PTFE, and HDPE

edit #2: 98%? that's past the aziotrope? did you use molecular sieves to dry it?

 

[madscientist451]

Rainy day here, been bottling some cider and I made a "hop tea" to add to some of last fall's cider. So after tasting what I was working with and pondering the issue for a while, I believe the hop tea route would be the best way to add hops to non-hoppy beer. You can make the hop tea, pour it into a wine bottle and keep it in the fridge. The solid particles will settle out and you can add it to taste to whatever beer you are having at the time.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

I can imagine alot of foam with certain types of beers, but others is more like "pours a glass, then pops in a pellet of hop as a flair to the drink..." This blender business seems like making a beer shake, though...lol

Hop milkshake sweet pastry IPA, it's the next big thing on untappd youbetcha.

 

[mendelec]

well, my experience with 190 proof and test cylinders....i switched to glass....

edit: not because i care about my heath, but the plastic ones would get deformed, and cloudy......i have seen the wonders of PTFE, and HDPE

edit #2: 98%? that's past the aziotrope? did you use molecular sieves to dry it?

192 proof. I stand corrected. I try to keep some high proof Spirytus Rektyfikowany around the house as a solvent for making extracts and supplements. None of my basement mad scientist laboratory endeavors need anything so dry I'd have to bust out a molecular seive. Bonus points for the chemical terminology, btw. (Azeotrope). Is it actually spelled with an "i" in your part of the world?

 

[bracconiere]

192 proof. I stand corrected. I try to keep some high proof Spirytus Rektyfikowany around the house as a solvent for making extracts and supplements. None of my basement mad scientist laboratory endeavors need anything so dry I'd have to bust out a molecular seive. Bonus points for the chemical terminology, btw. (Azeotrope). Is it actually spelled with an "i" in your part of the world?

only in my head, i thought about correcting it. but auto-correct doesn't even think fermentor is a word.....

 

[mendelec]

Cammanron, going back to your original question and thought, I have done something similar with decanted supernatant left over after making a starter. It occurred to me that there was perfectly good alcohol in there and it would be a shame to waste it. Tossed in some hop cones, gave it a stir, squished them a bit, let it sit a bit, and then drank it pretty much by straining it through my teeth. Sounds awful and gross, but it was actually super refreshing and very hoppy from the aromatics. I posted the experience in here somewhere, where it pretty much got an "eww gross" sort of response. My "process" could certainly be refined. In any case, based on that experience, I'd say that it would and should work quite well, but I'd stick with whole cones or you'd have a lot of debris. If you don't have access to whole cones, the teabag suggestion sounded like an interesting idea. Go for it.

 

[Gusso]

To get a feel for some hop flavors, I bought a sixer of Bud aluminum bottles. I unscrewed the lids and added a gram or two of different hops to each. After a few days I strained them and poured in a glass. Of the 6, one was a semi gusher. But overall, it kinda worked.

 

[CascadesBrewer]

To get a feel for some hop flavors, I bought a sixer of Bud aluminum bottles. I unscrewed the lids and added a gram or two of different hops to each. After a few days I strained them and poured in a glass. Of the 6, one was a semi gusher. But overall, it kinda worked.

I know I saw an article about this. I have thought about trying it.

A few years ago I went through a process of making a hop tea. I then purchased some large screw top bottles of a malt liquor that I spiked with the tea. The general idea was that adding the hop tea would bring the malt liquor down to around a 5% beer. It worked well enough that I took a few to my homebrew club and people thought it was interesting. Though...

I found that just brewing 3/4 gallon batches of extract based single hop samplers (following a process similar to what I learned from Basic Brewing Radio) worked much better and produced a reasonably enjoyable Pale Ale style beer. That is generally what I do these days to try out new hops. Basically 1 lb of DME, 1 oz of hops, 3/4 gallons of water, 3 grams of US-05...no boil with a 10 minute steep, or a 10 minute boil.

 

[Barbarossa]

Pellet hops will add a LOT of material to the beer. May not be the most pleasant drink. However, make a hop tea with the pellet hops and add the tea to the beer.

Use a teabag...

 

[GilRIEL]

The result is good? Because I want to test to bring different flavors. The tea hop seems to me a good idea. Can we make it with other tea? The infusion must be long?