Today at 4:00 pm we have a fairly unique firkin of Deadwood Wheat - I've utilized our lightest beer as a canvas to test a new product from a local hop farmer - Hop Hash.
You heard me.
Said Hop Hash has an iso-alpha acid content of ~ 37%, beta acid content of ~ 24%, and oil content of near 30%. The firkin has been dosed to the tune of 45 IBU on top of the 12 IBU the Wheat beer is calculated to during brewing of the beer.
The little wheat beer that could 'should' be 57 IBU now.
Will we perceive it that way? Will the beta acids kick our buds in the butt, perhaps they're not even part of the equation here? How will the oils come through in the finish? If there's as much oil as the lab analysis show then our buds in for a pummelling!
We'll find out today at 4:00 P.M., folks!
And here it is..... sticky, stinky.... everything you'd expect of good hash!
Never heard of Hop Hash before. How is it already isomerized?
ReplyDeleteCool - who made the hop hash? Randy?
ReplyDeleteYou'd have to ask the man behind the product how it's isomerized. As to whom - it ain't Randy. I'll direct this post to the processing hop farm, perhaps they'll respond.
ReplyDeleteCheers!
I’d guess that Hop Hash is prepared in a similar manner as pre-isomerized hop pellets. They simply mix a catalyst of magnesium oxide with the pulverized hop powder and allow it to react (isomerize) for a week or two at 50C.
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