So recently I have been hooked on Sweetwater's Mango Kush Wheat Ale. I highly recommend you giving it a try if you like the aromas of dankness. Every time I get a glass at the bar people think someone has busted out a bag of the chrondo.
Of course other breweries have their hemp infused brews but most of them are just that... infused with hemp products. I do not care for the taste of hemp but rather the dank aroma and flavors. Mango Kush does not contain any hemp nor taste like it.
Sweetwater says that they seek out hop varieties that contain terpene profiles found in the stickyist of the icky to create this aroma and flavor profile. I could definitely see that working but there is a big trial and error process that you may have to go through to nail the terpene profile, plus where would you find a data source that would tell you the terpene content in different hop varieties?
So I am wanting to create my own version of a "dank" brew. I have been doing some research and looking into terpene oils. There are companies that sell terpene oils isolates and recreated terpene profile blends that mimic certain strains of herb. By adding terpenes to a homebrew somewhere in the brewing process you could produce a product that has some of those aromas and flavors. There are many questions and thoughts that follow this idea:
Do any of ye fellow homebrewers have experience doing this?
At what point in the brewing process would you add the terpene oil?
I would guess during a hop stand or sometime during fermentation?
How would you add the terpene oil to the beer? Would you mix the terpene oil with an emulsifier before adding to the brew? Maybe you could blend the oil with some crushed pellet hops?
How much terpene oil would you use in say a 5 gal batch?
Of course other breweries have their hemp infused brews but most of them are just that... infused with hemp products. I do not care for the taste of hemp but rather the dank aroma and flavors. Mango Kush does not contain any hemp nor taste like it.
Sweetwater says that they seek out hop varieties that contain terpene profiles found in the stickyist of the icky to create this aroma and flavor profile. I could definitely see that working but there is a big trial and error process that you may have to go through to nail the terpene profile, plus where would you find a data source that would tell you the terpene content in different hop varieties?
So I am wanting to create my own version of a "dank" brew. I have been doing some research and looking into terpene oils. There are companies that sell terpene oils isolates and recreated terpene profile blends that mimic certain strains of herb. By adding terpenes to a homebrew somewhere in the brewing process you could produce a product that has some of those aromas and flavors. There are many questions and thoughts that follow this idea:
Do any of ye fellow homebrewers have experience doing this?
At what point in the brewing process would you add the terpene oil?
I would guess during a hop stand or sometime during fermentation?
How would you add the terpene oil to the beer? Would you mix the terpene oil with an emulsifier before adding to the brew? Maybe you could blend the oil with some crushed pellet hops?
How much terpene oil would you use in say a 5 gal batch?