Smoked hops!

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I had an epiphany last night. Smoked hops! What up!

I haven’t worked out the details of how to smoke them with out burning/ cooking or otherwise heating the hops. I think if we use a lot of smoke and not a lot of heat it could be an interesting experiment! I’m tossing around different types of hops to use, but haven’t landed on anything yet.

I have no idea how it might turn out, I might waste a few oz. of hops but it could be fantastic! I like a rauchbeer, only not gross.

Ad Astra!

Thoughts?

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I don’t mean to stifle your creativity…but…Simpson’s did it

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Charlie Papazian wrote about smoked hops in Zymurgy a year or 2 back.

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back to the drawing board…

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smoked yeast!

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You can smoke your beer!
I’m talking bubbling smoke through your beer for maximum smoky goodness.
:cheers:

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[quote=“Dimik”]You can smoke your beer!
I’m talking bubbling smoke through your beer for maximum smoky goodness.
:cheers: [/quote]

How do you do that without oxidizing the beer?

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[quote=“Denny”][quote=“Dimik”]You can smoke your beer!
I’m talking bubbling smoke through your beer for maximum smoky goodness.
:cheers: [/quote]

How do you do that without oxidizing the beer?[/quote]

I’m pretty sure he’s using beer in his bong… :smiley:

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Nope. No bongs. Never even held one in my hands.

You can bubble smoke through the wort as an aeration method perhaps?

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[quote=“Dimik”]Nope. No bongs. Never even held one in my hands.

You can bubble smoke through the wort as an aeration method perhaps?[/quote]

I’d think that if you did that the release of CO2 during fermentation would scrub it out.

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Then just age the beer in a Lagavulen barrel or cask. If that doesn’t give you enough smoke and peat, nothing will!