Next month I am doing my first fresh-hop ale. I plan on doing the following:
I am around 5 hours drive from the hop fields and I will keep the hops cold during transport.
Use 4 times the amount of wet hops as I would use dried whole flower hops (by weight) to compensate for the water content.
I will only add the fresh hops in the last 15 minutes of the boil and do bittering with a ordinary dried hops. I have heard that boiling fresh hops for a long time can give of grassy flavours.
Any other things I need to consider?
-Christian
I am around 5 hours drive from the hop fields and I will keep the hops cold during transport.
Use 4 times the amount of wet hops as I would use dried whole flower hops (by weight) to compensate for the water content.
I will only add the fresh hops in the last 15 minutes of the boil and do bittering with a ordinary dried hops. I have heard that boiling fresh hops for a long time can give of grassy flavours.
Any other things I need to consider?
-Christian
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