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Martin the fish

A weird Q

Post by Martin the fish » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:33 am

I had to spend the day servicing dive equipment today. Meant i was in workshop all day though, which is cool as my brewery is in there too. 8)
I wasn't happy with my hop strainer & my mash tun tap. This gave me an opportunity to sort these prob's out as best as i could.
Which i have-i'll put a post and pic's up about this in equipment. 8)

Q? Could you put hops in the HLT to get some extra hop flavour or dimension? Anyone tried this or is there a reason you wouldn't? I've heard things about mashing with hops but not hops in HLT?
Today i wanted to test my new hop strainer in my boiler so boiled 20 litres and then threw in a good handfull of spent hops. The resulting smell was quite lovely. Which lead me to come up with the hops in HLT question. Hop strainer worked badly first run, superbly second version. 8)
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Post by AT » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:40 am

Would they not just boil out anyway? i recently tried mash hopping and personally i think it's a load of pants and won't be trying it again. Maybe somebody else had a more positive experience with mash hopping??
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Martin the fish

Post by Martin the fish » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:53 am

It makes sense that most of the beneficial stuff i was smelling would get boiled out during the boil. Isn't that why we add aroma hops right at the end of the boil?
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Martin the fish

Post by Martin the fish » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:14 am

Thanks DaaB.
I think you've answered my question 8)
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Post by Aleman » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:51 pm

DaaB wrote:I can only assume mash hopping works like first wort hopping, if you do a search for first wort hopping, particularly for posts by Aleman he explains how it works.
I can only really make the point that Mash hopping was something thought up by some brewers on the HBD, following on from the 'rediscovery' of FWH. The theory is that 'if steeping hops in high gravity wort at 70C for an extended period leads to a better smoother hop bitterness we can put them in the mash for the same effect' . . . . . . I've tried it and like AT I am not convinced that it adds anything over FWH, although the theory makes some sort of sense . . . . As do a lot of theories in brewing . . not all of them are useful though ;)

Save your hops for wort not water!
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