Hop tea vs pellets

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Does it makes a big difference. A hop tea. Or pellets. During. Dry hop. Only. Advantage. I think. If you do dryhop. Into the keg. Not so much hop particals. If you make a hop tea

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You’d just steep the hops, pull out the hops, dump the tea water only in? I wonder how much oils are left behind? But then, up the amount?
Sneezles61

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With all the discussion about how long you actually need to dry hop I’m wondering about soaking the hops in vodka for 24 hours and then dump that in.

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Not a fan of spirits… I think the “tea” sounds solid…
Sneezles61

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I’ve done a vodka tincture extraction it works very well but is kinda off at the same time

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Can you expand on “off” please? Does it mess with the hop character?

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I only did it once and steeped in vodka for a whole week. I remember the bitter being very pronounced at the detriment of everything else and the vodka taste being too obvious

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Thanks! My DH times are getting shorter with 48 - 72 hrs being max. I’m going to give a 24 hour soak a try. I’ll keep the vodka to a minimum.

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I’ve reduced my DH times to 3 days at room temp. Didn’t see any advantage in going longer. When I do a double or triple DH I only do the last one in the keg so I’ve never really experienced an issue with to much hop debris.

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I’m with @dannyboy58 and only do 3 days max at room temp. I dry hop in keg in muslin bags and I leave the bags in for the duration. It’s very rare I have issues with hop sediment (although I did have some issues with my two double IPA’s on tap this summer once or twice). Only tinctures I use are for vanilla and I use beans in bourbon for that.

:beers:
Rad

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When I DH I go 3 days into the future and put the hops directly into the beer my future self will be drinking. Sure I risk the whole space-time continuum but it’s worth it.

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Must be some awesome brews right there Squeegee… :grin:
Sneezles61

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I blew out the flux capacitor on my keezer so I’m somewhat limited to the whole “now” timeframe.

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You might want to play around with time dilation then by storing your beer in orbit. Not as effective but still tasty.

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