i am going to take the plunge and buy some bulk hops to have on hand all the time. Most of the extract recipies brew lack that real hoppy flavour that I love. So my question is, if I pickup a 1lber of Cascade, how do I store it? I don't have one of those fancy heat/vacuum sealer things. I suspect with my brewing schedule, I would need to store some of it for 3-4 months.
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Re: Bulk hop storage
Vacuum sealer is really the only way to guarantee you're removing most of the oxygen from your storage vessel. I use a vacuum sealer with a mason jar attachment to store my hops.Timelord_ wrote:i am going to take the plunge and buy some bulk hops to have on hand all the time. Most of the extract recipies brew lack that real hoppy flavour that I love. So my question is, if I pickup a 1lber of Cascade, how do I store it? I don't have one of those fancy heat/vacuum sealer things. I suspect with my brewing schedule, I would need to store some of it for 3-4 months.
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Re: Bulk hop storage
If you don't want to invest in a vacuum sealer, get a large mason jar and purge the hops extremely well with CO2. However that isn't guaranteed but should help it a few months.Timelord_ wrote:i am going to take the plunge and buy some bulk hops to have on hand all the time. Most of the extract recipies brew lack that real hoppy flavour that I love. So my question is, if I pickup a 1lber of Cascade, how do I store it? I don't have one of those fancy heat/vacuum sealer things. I suspect with my brewing schedule, I would need to store some of it for 3-4 months.
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Liver Dance told me of using pop bottles and a carb cap to purge.
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GAM wrote:Liver Dance told me of using pop bottles and a carb cap to purge.
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Exactly. Purge well with CO2, then swap caps to standard one. A brief exposure to air during the swap won't affect it too much.
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chalmers, what size bottles were you using? I assume since you are purging with CO2 the size wouldn't matter, I've never used the carb cap before and would assume they fit most (or all) plastic bottles?
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I use 1 liter and 500ml smart water bottles.
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Awesome thanks LiverDance!
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