Liquid hop extract

[MashBag]

Anyone used this?

Being the self acclaimed idlest brewer round these parts, I though this could replace dry hopping? (Not one of my favourite things)

Indeed after a couple of shandies last night I was contemplating making a base ale & hopping the bottles differently when priming?

Perhaps I should give up drinking.... Or is that thinking

 

[jof]

Like you, I don't dry hop.
But as I had a request for something hoppy I was wondering about making a hop tea & adding on bottling day

 

[Bitter_Dave]

Until you become a kit brewer I think there are some of us more idle than you ;-)

I tried goldings hop oil some time ago. Details are blurry. I think I added it to the king keg (before I started bottling) and I remember thinking that it didn't seem noticeable. I finished up the bottle, so I must have used it more than once. Of course goldings are always going to be more subtle than the new world hops. The bottle smelled glorious though, like a hop perfume!

 

[Druss]

I use them quite regularly, so far I've tried the whole range that Cross My Loof used to offer (Citralicious, Outback, Nectaron, Kentish Gold) across various AG and kit beers and I've found them quite hit and miss.

I've always found dry hopping to be a bit of a hassle, so the idea of hop oils really appealed, nothing groundbreaking though.

The best result so far was a basic light ale (100% Maris) with about 25 drops of Citralicious per gallon. I only used it with half the batch to compare the two and it was really nice. The flavours are a bit too subtle in my opinion though.

 

[Stu]

I was talking to some folks about this over the weekend. It's all the rage (along with Cold IPAs).
Sounds very interesting. It does seem to be quite expensive, but I also understand the benefits.

As a NEIPA lover, I dry hop a lot. I do have a hop bong, to be fair, but this could still be a game changer using magnets.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Being the self acclaimed idlest brewer round these parts, I though this could replace dry hopping? (Not one of my favourite things)

Indeed after a couple of shandies last night I was contemplating making a base ale & hopping the bottles differently when priming?

It has to be said that traditional extracts of hop flavour (as opposed to bittering extracts) don't have a great reputation - there used to be a commercial brewery I knew that used them for almost all their beers and you could tell a mile off, they just weren't very good.

That's changed a bit with the new generation of hop extracts from the big hop producers, like Barth-Haas Spectrum, which are now widely used by commercial producers of hazies who want to add hop flavour without the grassiness that comes from the green material. But there's still some debate whether you use them exclusively or in combination with "real" hops, it's up to your personal taste I guess but by definition these products will always have something missing compared to the original hop.

 

[Bitter_Dave]

CML sell isomerised hop extract to add bitterness to beer and hop oil to add aroma etc. That means you could make your own beer kit in theory by adding these to malt extract + your own choice of yeast. No idea what that would be like in practice, but it's an interesting idea.