Hop extract, of course. Many brewers rely on this condensed, amber, extremely bitter paste to add flavor to their beer without the bulky mess involved in using whole flower hops or hop pellets.

The beer arrived in a “Hop Inciter 3000” (a large French press of the kind used for steeping coffee) loaded with a heaping handful of whole hop flowers.

Brewing with whole, fresh, hop flowers is a process known as “wet hop.” This type of beer has grown in popularity over the past decade, but it’s not cheap to produce.

Hop harvest marks the start of fresh (or wet) hop beer season. To recap, fresh hop beers utilize recently harvested (within ~36 hours), unprocessed whole hop flowers in the brewing process.

The flowers pass through a series of rolling sieves, separating the concentrated packets of hop oils from the leaves. 2. Debittered Leaves ...

Some hoppy news: Hops don't need to go dormant in order to flower New possibilities for indoor, sustainable, local production of hops Date: November 12, 2019 Source: Colorado State University ...