What to do with 33 lbs of hops?

[robtotten]

Trade 2 or 3 to 1 for any other hop to bbt members

 

[KYB]

Step 1: Brew a 1/2bbl of Double/Triple/Quadruple+ IPA (I have a recipe for a Quad and Insanity IPA I'd like to try....).
Step 2: You know DFH Randal hop infuser thing? Make one of those, except instead of using their little thing, stuff a corny keg full of hops, rig the beer out of the 1/2bbl to the gas in of the corny, and then the beer out goes into the tap.
Step 3: ?????
Step 4: Profit.

 

[pm5k00]

how about a barter for some delicious hombrew?

 

[I_B_Mongo]

Why not buy/borrow a vacuum sealer and package them. They'll keep in the freezer for years.

 

[edb23]

vacuum seal and freeze eleven pounds, eleven pounds for hobbies, and keep eleven pounds at room temperature to brew with and take advantage of that whole valium thing

 

[robtotten]

Zamial: I want to hear more about the Valium reaction! Details please, brother man!

 

[jbsg02]

That's $1500 dollars worth of hops at a brew store close to my house! ($3 an ounce)

 

[JasonToews]

Make an IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPA.

lol!

 

[Slurm]

As they were a gift, and you don't feel it's right to sell them, I suggest you re-gift some of them to your fellow brewers:

-Use as much as you can.

-Freeze as much as you have room for.

-Give the rest away to other brewers/trade to other brewers for ingredients you will use.

Especially with people talking about not being able to make their brews due to hops shortages, it's just bad karma to let em go to waste.

 

[Zamial]

Zamial: I want to hear more about the Valium reaction! Details please, brother man!

DISCLAIMER: I am not a Dr. a botanist a biologist or any other "ist". If you try this you do so at your own risks! I have NO idea if there are ANY side effects associated with this process...
I have been researching ways to use spent ingredients as part of a self sustainability life style. I also love to brew beer with some medicinal properties. EXAMPLE: A pound of local, unfiltered/pasturuzed honey in a 5 gallon batch of spring beer will help reduce the effects of seasonal allergies caused by pollen and spores. My wife suffers from this and if she has 1 homebrew a day will not require Claritin. YMMV

I have been busy researching on a variety of sites and there seems to be a reoccurring theme on many of them. I will provide some links and quotes from them. I can not say how truthful or accurate they are but it sounds correct to me...

I also stand corrected it may take more than 1 year...I have read both 1 and 2 years from different sources...YMMV

Hops are used as an effective sedative and remarkable treatment for insomnia. Ageing the strobiles for two years allows two of the herb's chemical compounds, humulone and lupulone, to create a substance that is chemically similar to chlordiazepoxide, substances that are included in both Librium and Valium.

http://www.dickcontino.com/hopsherbaldosages.htm

Then the wiki says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlordiazepoxide Please remember that chlordiazepoxide is a man made chemical and that what we would be making is SIMILAR and NATURAL.

Retyped due to no copy pasta

- Insomnia Hops, like the beers that are made from it, is a well-known sleep aid. Aging hops for up to 2 years allows 2 of the herb's chemical compounds, humulone and lupulone to create a substance that is chemically similar to chlordiazepoxide (Librium) and diazepam (Valium).

http://books.google.com/books?id=OB...wAg#v=onepage&q=aging hops for valium&f=false

I am not EXACTLY sure what the outcome of aging hops would be. I am interested to know however due to my interest in natural healing/remedies.

My thoughts: If there is any further interest in this subject we need to make a new thread and not hijack this one! We also would need to monitor the results + process and possibly get more educated people on the subject matter involved than me.

 

[biochemedic]

Instead bittering, flavor, and aroma additions at around 60/20/1 could you use an absolute asston of hops at 10/5/1?

I hadn't thought of this, but this is a good idea too...I've been playing around with this "hopburst" concept recently too, and using this technique of getting all your bitterness from flavor/aroma-timed additions is a *great* way to emphasize hop flavor!

 

[Bobby_M]

I'm also scratching my head as to why giving some away or selling some is poor gift receipt etiquette when the inevitable end result is spoilage otherwise.

 

[petey_c]

Make a killing selling sandwich baggies of it down at the skate park?

Now that was pretty funny! I'm mean it is in the same family as hemp, isn't it?
I'd also have to agree with Bobby_M; don't let it go to waste, give it away before then if you have to.

 

[frydogbrews]

seriously folks, i don't plan on throwing any of these away, i promise. i started this thread to see if people had any other ideas for use. i may try steeping a bunch of them in oil and then heating it and straining out the hops to have a big jug of hop oil. probably tasty on pasta!
i have given some of them away to another homebrewer i know in the area, so i am not keeping every last one. sending them through the mail sounds like a giant pain in the butt though.
i think the oil might be needed to make the soap too? i don't know, we have never made soap.

 

[Zamial]

Survival soap 101:

This is not a dove bar lol...it is BASIC soap

Soap

In a large container mix 11 oz of lye, 32 oz cold water, when mixture cools add 4lbs of heated lard then stir and pour into a shallow pan/vessel to dry. After a week the mixture can be cut into bars,

BTW use Lard not oil if this is your plan!

Recipe taken from "The Colony" season 2, survival tip / PSA clip

 

[passedpawn]

You might attempt to make hop oil with it. Then bottle the oil for later brews.

No idea how one might do that... perhaps a topic for a new thread?

 

[gclay]

make a 2501 ibu beer and have the world's record

 

[rockfish42]

Survival soap 101:

This is not a dove bar lol...it is BASIC soap

Soap

In a large container mix 11 oz of lye, 32 oz cold water, when mixture cools add 4lbs of heated lard then stir and pour into a shallow pan/vessel to dry. After a week the mixture can be cut into bars,

BTW use Lard not oil if this is your plan!

Recipe taken from "The Colony" season 2, survival tip / PSA clip

You always add lye into water, when it dissolves it's exothermic if you do it the other way around you risk injury.

 

[geneb]

Steep a bunch of them in Scotch and call it Hop Scotch (pun intended). Or Vodka or some other liquor of choice. I can only imagine it tasting good.

 

[MI_Craig]

Our local brewery/distillery mixes hops with a neutral spirit to make something called Hopquila. It's very interesting how much it tastes like tequila and makes a good Hoparita!

 

[Teromous]

You could grind them up and put them in a snow machine and be the first person to literally ski down hop mountain...

 

[frydogbrews]

i was just exposed to that hopquila this weekend. my wife liked it. i'm not much of a hard liquor person, but i like the idea!

 

[edb23]

ok so now that we're on the subject, not sure if you're a gin drinker, but some good gin infused with hops would probably be amazing

 

[biochemedic]

One other thing that occurred to me today...this might be a good opportunity to do a series of SMaSH brews -- keep the hop type and bitterness level consistent, and try different marris otter, regular 2-row, munich, pils, vienna....etc... Might be a good way to really learn about the pure contribution of the various malts to taste....