Making Hop Tea

I made hop tea for an IPA in lieu of dry hopping.

[@stevetobias5795]

I started doing this too. I add a little lemon juice into the hop tea then make a mix 1/3 hop tea 2/3 flavored seltzer. Tastes a lot like an IPA and it is very calming. It is a great way to cut back on alcohol!

[@dexterne]

First time I tried this with boiling water it was super bitter and grassy. The trick is lower temperature. My method: .5oz with 24oz 170F water, steep 10 min, French press, mix with 1cup sugar, makes ~750ml hop syrup. Mix 3oz with 12oz soda water. Aeropress is easier with pellets. I still prefer to dry hop in a mesh capsule in the keg, less steps.

[@s.venkateswarpatnaik2484]

I liked your brew and feed

[@Skid-Baxter]

I've seen the French press method for making a hop tea quite a few times while researching different ways of getting more hop presence in my homebrew. But this is the first one to convince me to finally go out and buy a French press! Great video. Just subscribed. Cheers!!!

[@NimbleGeeza]

Don’t bother, it doesn’t work

[@Skid-Baxter]

​@@NimbleGeeza Thanks for the heads up!

[@stevebevan5104]

Yes, please tell us about the results

[@NimbleGeeza]

I tried this and it has nothing on dry hoping. I ruined 20lts of beer trying this out but I guess I learned something from it. Take my advice and stick with dry hoping.

[@karensphone]

i am going to do this and add some raspberry tea, then add ginger bug to make it carbonated. i will also add some lemon, then bottle it once it starts to carbonate. thanks for the video

[@BowlerTheHatGuy]

Jeez... That's huge amount of hops! Lot enough to get drunk without alcohol!

[@NapoleonDynamite69]

He's a big man, needs more

[@rudyvalencia2447]

Awesome idea i wonder why i didnt think of that before im doing it on my next brew

[@alecsnyder7]

The sescono treptiniods will impart plenty of hop bitterness from the alpha acids.

[@Dirge4july]

good stuff bro

[@CM-dw3gh]

How many grams/oz did you use mate?

[@youthuprise3883]

Drinking sum homeade.. HOP TEA... # BUZZ😩🥳🧨💨❗I BEEN DRINKIN IT 4 OVER 11 YEARS .. YUMM

[@Kberrysal]

How did this work in your beer

[@larryhamel600]

Curious how your hop tea project worked out. I am wanting to do something similar but preferably using hop pellets.

[@BrewandFeed]

larry hamel It extracted an earthy/grassy hop flavor that I didn’t care for too much. I either used the wrong hop of steeped the hop to long or a combination of both. I’m gonna try it again soon.

[@larryhamel600]

I dry hopped on Thursday using 3 oz. of Citra hops in my French press. I will be kegging tomorrow, so will let you know how that worked out. I am brewing a clone of 3 Floyds' Zombie Dust. I got the recipe from Great fermentations out of Indianapolis. Wish me luck.

[@larryhamel600]

By the way, I used hop pellets, not whole hops

[@JorgeLCaetano]

@@larryhamel600 I know its been a long time, but how it turned out the Clone with extract?

[@stevevit68]

Nice, I'll be French pressing next brew!

[@jcinsaniac]

How did it work out? Did you achieve the hop nose you were after? Were there any drawbacks? I'm thinking about infusing cinnamon and vanilla that way in a coffee stout. Just make the Hop Tea with a charge of Cascade, Cinnamon and Vanilla with the bottling sugar - and add it at bottling time.

[@BrewandFeed]

jcinsaniac It extracted an earthy/grassy hop flavor that I didn’t care for too much. I either used the wrong hop or steeped the hop to long and too hot or a combination of both.

[@jcinsaniac]

Thanks fir sharing - yes, it is difficult to know how much is spot on or just too much to infuse. I love the concept though!

[@18centwood]

Are you going to keep trying to use this method? I have seen some who swear by it. I will be trying hopefully this next brew. Thanks for sharing! Just subbed 👍

[@18centwood]

Some of the ones I've seen don't use the French press so not sure if that is what is making it more grassy? Here is a link to David Heath who brewed his Neipa using his method. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIW3hmelg9ubkKs this is the link to how he did it. Cheers

[@mossyrock123]

@@BrewandFeed i think the reason you got a grassy flavour was because you added them to boiling water! the water should be 60 - 70 degrees C max

[@BennyBestt]

You ever made hop hash?

[@andrewsayers3392]

Do you find there was any difference by this method?

[@BrewandFeed]

This was a fail. I never tried it again. I've been sticking to dry hopping.

[@davidbeiler6364]

what are you looking at?

[@Fork4Fun]

I looked for the follow up, but couldn't find it. How did the beer turn out? What do you think about the method of hopping in general?

[@BrewandFeed]

It came out horrible. It was very vegetal. I should have steeped it with warm water instead of hot.

[@chvspxr]

can you drink chilled hop tea?

[@BrewandFeed]

7782 chvspxr Maybe. It would taste pretty awful unless it’s mixed with something.

[@wartlme]

Take .5 oz of hops. I used homegrown brewers gold cones. One cup of water at 165 degrees for 3 minutes. This makes a very light tea. Experiment with temps to create different flavors. I would not steep over 200 degrees. I enjoy drinking hop tea and I will also add black or green tea with it also.

[@ericolofsson]

Yeah you can, "original use" belived to be tea and food. Take one gram hole dried cone. on 2dl (100c) for 30 sec or more depending on taste. Can get bitter fast

[@tancaldwell9832]

Can you just brew hop tea in a tea bag

[@manuelramirez8203]

More healthy nutrition for our body's.