Hop Tea Amounts

[MyQul]

I havent done a hop tea for a loooong time. I'm going to add a challenger hop tea to the Ordinary Bitter I made yeasterday, at bottling time. I remember how to do it but I cant remember amounts. What amounts of hops are people using for their hop tea's (and how much water?)

 

[MyQul]

Anyone? (why wont someone talk to me. Wahhhh!!!)

 

[MmmBeer]

The only time I have made a hop tea was well over a year ago, using a hop teabag. There are 12 g of hops in the teabag, which was added to a cupful of boiling water (150 - 200ml). Obviously increase if you are looking for a larger hop aroma. Hope it helps.

 

[Nicks90]

I usually dry hop but have done a hop tea a couple of times.
I used a single hop tea bag and 100ml of boiled water - cooled to 80c so as to not add bitterness, just aroma - to a 20l brew
I fancy tweaking my next IPA kit, but using 3 different hops with 50gm in total, to really add a hop explosion

 

[Frogbrew]

I've used the 12g hop teabags before on a 23ltr brew but I think 12g isn't enough. 25g minimum I think works well otherwise you just won't get the aroma.
I use one of these a few days before bottling.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/173472794043

 

[MyQul]

Thanks chaps. I think I'll use 25g (scaled to 10L). I plan on steeping at 80C for 30mins in a pint glass than will strain the hop debris out using a piece of folded kitchen towel

 

[MyQul]

Just added my hop tea to my brew prior to bottling (I forgot to scale down to 10L and added 25g of Challenger to the water).

I didnt want to use MrsMQ fench press as I didnt want coffee grounds in my beer and MrsMQwould kill me if her coffee started tasting like hops. What i did was fold a paper kitchen towel like in the vid below. Then after soaking the pellets in 1/2 pint of 80C water for 25mins, I held the folded paper towel over another pint glass and pour everything in to the paper towel. It worked really well seperating the tea from the spent pellets, although I did need to give the towel a gentle squeeze to get the majority of the tea out of the pellets

 

[brumbrew]

Just added my hop tea to my brew prior to bottling (I forgot to scale down to 10L and added 25g of Challenger to the water).

I didnt want to use MrsMQ fench press as I didnt want coffee grounds in my beer and MrsMQwould kill me if her coffee started tasting like hops. What i did was fold a paper kitchen towel like in the vid below. Then after soaking the pellets in 1/2 pint of 80C water for 25mins, I held the folded paper towel over another pint glass and pour everything in to the paper towel. It worked really well seperating the tea from the spent pellets, although I did need to give the towel a gentle squeeze to get the majority of the tea out of the pellets

You do know about coffee filters right? Or is MrsMQ hiding them from you?

 

[brumbrew]

My bad. Just watched the video after I commented. Rookie mistake.

 

[Dutto]

I use one of these ...

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8477305

... and tell SWMBO it cost a quid!

 

[stevey]

I use one of these ...

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8477305

... and tell SWMBO it cost a quid!

Haha! Great minds...

 

[matt76]

I use one of these ...

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8477305

... and tell SWMBO it cost a quid!

Genius!

 

[brumbrew]

I have a small one I picked up from a charity shop. And it actually did cost a quid. The bigger one I have is ikea branded and cost 2.50 from the same charity shop.

 

[MyQul]

I use one of these ...

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8477305

... and tell SWMBO it cost a quid!

My kitchen towel filter method cost about 1p a go and has the added bonus of not having to wash it out after as I can just chuck the whole thing in the bin

 

[matt76]

Having followed this thread, and considering I'm planning to dry hop my latest batch, I was going to ask about dry hopping vs. hop tea...

But I did a search first, and found this thread in case anyone else is wondering:
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/dry-hopping-vs-hop-tea.51391/