So Tomorrow, I Cold Hop

[JimRausch]

Well, what was it? What beer? What hops? When you say "cold" hopped, I assume you dumped them in from the freezer?

Cascade and Centennial in 'Redrum- A murderous Red Rye Ale'. Hope it turns out as much as I love the name.
And, but of course (say it with a snobby French accent) the hops went directly from freezer to bucket.

 

[Gemadrken]

Ok. From the article:

"There is currently no accepted theoretical model that would allow cold fusion to occur."

Whut's your point?

hah my point was just that the word "cold" is relative.

In the case of "cold fusion-" the fusion happens at ~room temp, and sometimes considerably warmer.

In this case; room temp is "cold," so the term "cold hopping" couldn't be discounted purely because "room temp" can't be considered cold.


Personally i couldn't care less about changing the term dry-hopping; yeah it doesn't really make sense which imo makes it take a little more effort to learn about (which I think is a good thing, people should spend more time learning).

Does "Cold hopping" make more sense for the action than "dry hopping?" Perhaps. But when it comes to science(which brewing is) there are countless outdated terms which are firmly in place that don't make sense with what we know today.

Oxidization for example often has nothing to do with oxygen. It has to do with the loss of electrons by molecules, atoms or ions with ionic bonds. ("Reduction" is the exact opposite. When particles gain electrons; which is even more confusing).

I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with you- just pointing out that "cold" is relative.

I'm also pointing out that the term "dry hop" might not make perfect sense. But we might as well deal with it. If we wanna go around naming things then we should probably invent new things to name

 

[lschiavo]

Silver bullet.

Dry doesn't necessarily mean the opposite of wet. In brewing terms, it also means the opposite of sweet. Fresh wort is sweet. After fermentation the beer is not sweet. It is relatively dry.

We add hops after the beer is dry, thus dry hopping.

This makes sense to me.

 

[Norselord]

Did you post hop prior to packagin? I would think this is just a later pre-hop addition near the end.

 

[day_trippr]

lmao

 

[Singletrack]

Did you post hop prior to packagin? I would think this is just a later pre-hop addition near the end.

This was a double cold hop, so it required post hopping following removal of pre-existing cold hops. I just don't get the aroma I want from pre-hop hot hops near the end, post boil.