Hop Tea Question.

[MyQul]

��£5 for a 330ml

As for the original question, i have made hop teas (when i was doing kits) in a caffatiere. Boiled the water, put the pellets in and stuck the water in, pressed and left:thumb:. Not bothered since though.

Haven't been there for months but I'm sure that what they were flogging it for.

 

[Alexislife]

Back at Ubrew next week to bottle so I'll get a pic of the price board if I remember.

Generally as I brew there I usually take a couple of bottles of my last batch with me unless they have something that particularly takes my fancy.

 

[dan125]

Yeas, very well,I rarely use leaf. A very small amount of the debris gos through but not much at all

Great - I'll try it with a East Coast IPA I've got planned a couple of brews from now.
Is it worth treating the water at all do you think? or is 1L in a 23L batch not worth worrying about?

Only been to Ubrew once, by the way, and that was last year. But 12 quid to chuck some hops in a brew sounds like a bit of a p***take.

 

[MyQul]

Great - I'll try it with a East Coast IPA I've got planned a couple of brews from now.
Is it worth treating the water at all do you think? or is 1L in a 23L batch not worth worrying about?

Only been to Ubrew once, by the way, and that was last year. But 12 quid to chuck some hops in a brew sounds like a bit of a p***take.

I dont think 1L in a 23L batch will make much difference. I've never bothered to treat it

 

[Bigcol49]

Boiled the water, put the pellets in and stuck the water in, pressed and left:thumb:. Not bothered since though.

Hi!
There is an opinion that anything above 65-70°C will evaporate the essential oils that we are aiming to get into the beer.
http://beersmith.com/blog/2013/01/21/late-hop-additions-and-hop-oils-in-beer-brewing/
I always allow the boiled water to cool in the covered cafetière before adding the hops. I have a dedicated cafetière for the job.
Colin

 

[chub1]

Hi!
There is an opinion that anything above 65-70°C will evaporate the essential oils that we are aiming to get into the beer.
http://beersmith.com/blog/2013/01/21/late-hop-additions-and-hop-oils-in-beer-brewing/
I always allow the boiled water to cool in the covered cafetière before adding the hops. I have a dedicated cafetière for the job.
Colin

Okey dokey,only did it a few times anyway and can't actually say with any honesty if it added or detracted from my beers!
as i said, i havn't bothered since i stopped brewing kits and doubt very much if i will go back to kits again.

 

[dan125]

I've been thinking about the practicalities of doing a hop tea and hope someone has a bright idea that can help with a possible problem:-

I bottle/keg direct from my 2ndry - a glass carboy, and add priming sugar directly to the bottles as I only fill about 6-8 from each batch, with the rest being force carbonated in the keg.

I was thinking that adding the hop tea to the carboy a couple of hours before bottling/kegging would give it enough time to mix in with the beer, but the question is - how do I get the tea into the carboy with it freefalling from a funnel in the neck and introducing oxygen? Syphoning 1L will be a bit of a faff - there's got to be a better way hasn't there???

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[MyQul]

I've been thinking about the practicalities of doing a hop tea and hope someone has a bright idea that can help with a possible problem:-

I bottle/keg direct from my 2ndry - a glass carboy, and add priming sugar directly to the bottles as I only fill about 6-8 from each batch, with the rest being force carbonated in the keg.

I was thinking that adding the hop tea to the carboy a couple of hours before bottling/kegging would give it enough time to mix in with the beer, but the question is - how do I get the tea into the carboy with it freefalling from a funnel in the neck and introducing oxygen? Syphoning 1L will be a bit of a faff - there's got to be a better way hasn't there???

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If you had a piece of tubing that fits the funnel then you could put the tubing into the carboy and in the the beer and pour the tea in that way.

 

[Alexislife]

Gave the hop tea a go yesterday, all seemed fairly straight forward using a cafetière. Now just a couple of weeks in the bottle to see how it panned out.