Best time to add hops?

[mancer62]

When is the best time to add hops to my brews? Flavour is more important to me than aroma so should I go down the hop tea rout?
I have made 38 pints of Wilko IPA (an extract kit) which has been fermenting for 8 days now........I have 50g of Cascade should I use all for this amount of beer? If so how much water should I boil the hops in and when I add to the FV should I just drop my muslin bag in as well? How long should I leave before taking out?

I have also made a Wilko Dark Velvet Stout with half a tin of black treacle.....is there any hops that would add to or enhance this or not?

 

[Slid]

When is the best time to add hops to my brews? Flavour is more important to me than aroma so should I go down the hop tea rout?
I have made 38 pints of Wilko IPA (an extract kit) which has been fermenting for 8 days now........I have 50g of Cascade should I use all for this amount of beer? If so how much water should I boil the hops in and when I add to the FV should I just drop my muslin bag in as well? How long should I leave before taking out?

I have also made a Wilko Dark Velvet Stout with half a tin of black treacle.....is there any hops that would add to or enhance this or not?

I would boil your hops - all of them, for 5 mins in something like 500ml of water. Leave it to cool, then chuck the whole lot, bag and all, into the beer. If the hops are whole leaf, need to add some weights, marbles or sterilised cutlery, to make it sink. At 14 days you remove the bag and the hops and then you have a choice, maybe - bottle, or rack to a second FV for another week and then bottle. If you don't have another FV, that makes the decision, I suppose?

As for Wilko Stout and treacle - just Not. Sorry, but 227g of treacle has an impact and that will overwhelm any hopping ever done by me!

 

[Leon103]

I find 18.35pm is usually the beat time. It's just after the kids if gone to bed

 

[terrym]

+1 on what @Slid has said.

PS Presume OP has doubled up on kit cans to make 38 pints?

 

[mancer62]

the hops are pellet hops...so you would just boil then throw into the FV for 2 weeks?

 

[Ciaran12s]

You could just make the hop tea on bottling tea and add the tea to the bottling bucket after straining. I make hop teas in a cafetiere with water at around 80C. Give it a stir a few times over 30 minutes and strain to the bottling bucket during the transfer.

 

[terrym]

the hops are pellet hops...so you would just boil then throw into the FV for 2 weeks?

You tell us that your beer has been fermenting for 8 days.
Do what @Slid said concerning hop tea etc etc and leave for a further 6 days. As you have used pellets you will either need to contain them in a bag in the FV, or if you have not used a bag you will need to filter out the hop bits at packaging time.
Either way you are now at 14 days.
If you are happy the primary has finished you can then go ahead and package your beer.

 

[Ghillie]

The hop tea route is a good option.

Dry hopping imparts a surprising amount of flavour as well. I add my dry hops at the end of fermentation. I do this because there's then no need to remove the hops; as the next step will be to rack the beer to a bottling bucket or keg anyway. Because of this, you can throw them in loose as well. Pellet hops break up and sink to the bottom of the FV within the typical 3-7 day dry hop schedule also.