Dry hopping or hop tea.

[Gerryjo]

I brewed a Cascade SMaSH recently which is going to get 40g either dry hop or hop tea.
Now I brewed second runnings from this too which I added 2kg of Maris Otter,0.5kg of chateau ruby and 100g of roasted barley and split the batch fermenting one with Gervin 12 and the other with S04.I used Cascade in the boil for bittering and aroma.Now they have been transferred to secondary and shallbe either dry hopping or hop tea.One shall be Amarillo and the other will be Northern brewer.
I think it's worth a vote so shall be adding hops on Monday either way so opinions welcome.Cheers.

Gerry

 

[Graz]

Lot of debate around this. The theory is that by steeping the hops in some hot water before adding extracts more of the flavour of the hops whereas dry hopping is more about adding aroma as less of the flavour is extracted by the wort sitting at fermentation temperature.

I'm not really sure though, surely bunging 50g of pellets into the beer for 3-5 days will also draw a fair amount of flavour out of them too?

 

[terrym]

The trouble with hop teas is that you have to use a fair quantity of water with the hops especially if you are using pellets (I haven't used whole hops in years) and that dilutes your brew. If you don't use an adequate amount of water you simply end up with a lumpy mass of hops or a thick slurry, and that is going to do little to extract the flavours. However if you are really pedantic and don't want to dilute your brew you could take into account the hop tea liquid you use in the original wort calc. I seem to remember I found 100ml water is needed for every 10g pellets to make the tea sufficiently mobile.
Anyway what I sometimes do is to steep the hops in 80*C water, allow it to cool, and then chuck the lot in. That way you probably get the best of both worlds.

 

[AlanManley]

Never tried hop tea before. Keep meaning too. If you do let us know how it goes!

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[Slid]

Here is a vid from a guy a would recommend

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTTU4oNvhZI[/ame]

 

[TenaciousG]

I've done it once for a Cwtch clone as the kit version does a hop tea at the start. When I dry hopped after 10 days or so I chucked in 30g citra and 30g Columbus and then at the same time stick 15g of each in a mug with boiling water, let it cool a bit then poured that into the FV and it's a cracking beer similar to the original so I can't complain- got the lovely flavour and aroma too

 

[Dutto]

I've recently moved over to Hop Tea after buying a 250ml cafeteria from Ikea.

At the moment I make 250ml of Hop Tea out of 10g of Hop Pellets and 250ml of boiling water, allow the tea to steep for 20 minutes while I syphon off the beer into the Bottling Bucket or PB and then add it to the beer at the same time as I add the priming sugar.

I've only done two brews this way (a SMASH with Cascade and one with Citra) and I enjoyed both of them. :thumb: