Double-hopping

[enoch1973]

Hey there,

Just wondering what the term "Double-Hopping" means? I have done a couple of extract brews and am familar with the way hops behave in the boil. Just wonder what it means? E.g. adding hops at flame out or dry hopping. Anyhelp would be great.
Thanks
Pete

 

[manticle]

Where did you come across the term?

 

[thesunsettree]

hi mate,

i have seen th\e term 'douple hopped' on *shudders* carlton mid, and have often wondered if it had any relevance or just some convoluded marketing gimmick

cheers
matt

 

[manticle]

Found a link that suggests double hopping refers to beer that's dry hopped (presumably bittering etc hops occur for the single)

It's wikipedia so take with a grain of salt and christ knows why they though they needed a separate term:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Star_Beer

 

[Thirsty Boy]

Marketing term really - Carlton Mid is hopped in the kettle (with Pride of Ringwood) and also gets the usual addition of hop extract that goes into "normally" hopped CUB beer.

Other CUB beers get kettle hops too - several of them significantly more than Mid... but no mention of "double" hops on those beers.

So yes - if you look at it in a certain light, it is double hopped.... but mostly its nice marketing to convince people that the lower alcohol is offset by an addition of something else. Which it is to a certain extent... its just not as impressive as its designed to sound.

 

[MarkBastard]

Yeah and Miller Lite is 'triple hop brewed for that great pilsner taste" :icon_vomit:

 

[manticle]

Marketing term really - Carlton Mid is hopped in the kettle (with Pride of Ringwood) and also gets the usual addition of hop extract that goes into "normally" hopped CUB beer.

I remember a fairly average beer at a fed Sq showcase last year that was pushed as being 'triple malted'.

Really? Three malts?

Insane envelope pushing at its finest.

 

[MitchDudarko]

I remember a fairly average beer at a fed Sq showcase last year that was pushed as being 'triple malted'.

Really? Three malts?

Insane envelope pushing at its finest.

I lol'd.

 

[enoch1973]

Thanks for your responses... Trying to make a Honey Wheat Beer...
Was on the Bee Sting beer bottle or website or somewhere...

Where did you come across the term?

 

[O'Henry]

Swan had a triple hopped beer a while back. It was just that. Bittering, aroma and dry. Well, that's what I was lead to believe by one of the ex-brewers. I was half asleep though and had a couple of beers, as usual...

 

[Howlingdog]

I can recall back in 2002/3 I went to a beer night at Adarmos at Jupiters casino where himself from CUB said that Mid was late hopped with Hersbrucker dont recall wether it was pellets, flowers ot isohop/extracth

Marketing term really - Carlton Mid is hopped in the kettle (with Pride of Ringwood) and also gets the usual addition of hop extract that goes into "normally" hopped CUB beer.

Other CUB beers get kettle hops too - several of them significantly more than Mid... but no mention of "double" hops on those beers.

So yes - if you look at it in a certain light, it is double hopped.... but mostly its nice marketing to convince people that the lower alcohol is offset by an addition of something else. Which it is to a certain extent... its just not as impressive as its designed to sound.

 

[Thirsty Boy]

Its not, POR at start of boil. Pellets. I made some last week.

Other beers we have are late hopped with Hersbrucker though, so it might have just been a brain snap and a brand mismatch.

 

[bconnery]

Applying that term you could conceivably make a septuple hopped beer I guess.
Mash, First Wort, Bittering (stretching perhaps to count these as two but this for marketing so anything goes ...), flavour, aroma, dry hop, hopbacked

Any I've missed? Can we go for an octuple hopped beer?

It means nothing.

 

[warra48]

To take it a step further, assume a hop burst IPA with say 6 malts, and 10 hop additions.
You'd have a sextuple malted decadently hopped ale.
Yum, tasty!

 

[Nick JD]

I often single hop. It makes my beer taste like an Aussie Lager.

 

[Bribie G]

To take it a step further, assume a hop burst IPA with say 6 malts, and 10 hop additions.
You'd have a sextuple malted decadently hopped ale.
Yum, tasty!

You have the beginning of a song there, we could all hop along to it like Cole Porter B)