crafty john wrote:Brotherton Lad wrote:Hop tea will do the job, as will dry hopping, just drop an ounce into the FV, or even dry hop the keg, if you want a more bitter taste. It should be a good extra special bitter, whatever you do.
I was under the impression that you have to boil hops to extract the bitterness and late or dry hopping only gives aroma
Boil a bit on the hob for a while with a little spraymalt in, that will extract the bitterness moreso. The tea or the dryhopping will add aroma moreso as you rightly point out. You will get an amount of bitterness out of aroma hops but not so much depth of bitterness as with boililng.