pdilley
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Needed:
o 28 grams home grown hops (28.3 grams if you have accurate scales)
o sugar
o water measure in mL
Accurately measure:
28.3 grams of your home grown hops.
473 mL of water
Steps to make hop tea:
Boil the water for 15 minutes with 1 accurately measured tablespoon of sugar added.
Add your home grown hops and boil for 10 additional minutes.
Strain out the hops leaving you with hop tea.
Method to estimate alpha acid bitterness levels:
Mix 59mL of your hop tea with with 59mL of water.
Sip.
Taste bitter?
Mark a 1 on a piece of paper.
Take 59mL of this diluted mixture into a new cup and add 59mL additional water.
Sip again.
Taste bitter?
Mark another 1 on the piece of paper.
Take 59mL of this new diluted mixture into a new cup and add another 59mL of additional water.
Sip.
Taste bitter?
Mark another 1 on the paper.
Continue until you no longer taste bitterness.
Add up all the ones to get a final number.
That is your ballpark figure to brew with as %AA in your recipes.
Cheers,
Brewer Pete
o 28 grams home grown hops (28.3 grams if you have accurate scales)
o sugar
o water measure in mL
Accurately measure:
28.3 grams of your home grown hops.
473 mL of water
Steps to make hop tea:
Boil the water for 15 minutes with 1 accurately measured tablespoon of sugar added.
Add your home grown hops and boil for 10 additional minutes.
Strain out the hops leaving you with hop tea.
Method to estimate alpha acid bitterness levels:
Mix 59mL of your hop tea with with 59mL of water.
Sip.
Taste bitter?
Mark a 1 on a piece of paper.
Take 59mL of this diluted mixture into a new cup and add 59mL additional water.
Sip again.
Taste bitter?
Mark another 1 on the piece of paper.
Take 59mL of this new diluted mixture into a new cup and add another 59mL of additional water.
Sip.
Taste bitter?
Mark another 1 on the paper.
Continue until you no longer taste bitterness.
Add up all the ones to get a final number.
That is your ballpark figure to brew with as %AA in your recipes.
Cheers,
Brewer Pete