How To HomeBrew Beer Part 4 - Hops - Everything you need to Know 

Another great part to this series. I am not a new brewer but I am learning new things from each part! Many thanks for all you do.

Thanks David. Great video as usual. Some great little snippets in there. My neighbour is growing some Cascade so your piece on wet hopping is very useful.

Love your videos. :) thx for doing all the videos.

Thanks for your expertise.

Excellent information about Hops. Thank you. ♠

Great work as usual. Thank you for all that energy you share with us.

Another great video DH! 🍻

As usual 👍 Funny the first screen shot you showed looks like Fruit Bomb Triple IPA, just brew it last weekend and look forward to taste it. Thanks for all your recipe and knowledge you are sharing. Just incredible. Thank you indeed...

Really interesting video, thank you! Cheers!

I wasn't aware of the continuous hopping technique, very interesting. Not feasible for the 1 gallon batches that I make unfortunately, with only a few grams of hops used.

Don't forget that big breweries use hop extract as well There are two different methods to extract the alpha acids and aromas (oils) out of the hop cones CO² - Extract -> extracting the good stuff with high pressure and liquid CO² (super cold but turns into gas when getting warmer leaving you with the good stuff) and Ethanol-Extract -> the good stuff is "washed" out of the cones with alcohol which then evaporates leaving you with only the good stuff Those extracts are sold in big cans labeled with their alpha acid content in grams (so the brewery can calculate how much is needed) If you ever come across hop extract be advised that it is very bitter! I speak of experience (had something on my finger while opening the can and licked it...bad Idea)

Muito bom Portugal Aveiro... Obrigado

Hey David!

Hi David. Thanks for another informative video. I'm curious, are you planning on doing anything on hop oils/extract in the future as they seem to be gaining in popularity?

A hypothetical, but say you have a pressurized fermentation vessel, could you then dry hop in a hop rocket/missile in a closed circuit that has been flushed with CO2? It would keep the hop matter out of the bulk of your beer and the agitation could speed up your extraction.

Only Dip Hopping left ;)

As always great video! Thoughts on Biotransformation?

Interesting video. So the main benefit of a hop missile is improved flavour? I thought it was just a way to avoid too much hops in the kettle.

Thanks David, regarding the hop stand at 80 degrees, is it safe to allow the wort to cool down naturally (but slowly) or should you use a chiller to get to 80 degrees as quickly as possible?

Hi David, thank you for your informative explanation. Hopefully you can help me with the following. I always coldcrash my beers such as IPAs and Neipa's to get rid of any flavour deviations, I get good results with this. Sometimes better than other times, shall we say. Now I would like to know if I have to dryhopped a beer for 3 days for example, does it make a difference in taste if I coldcrash this beer afterwards for another 5 days, or does it not matter much?

Very useful as usual thank you and please keep them coming. I'm still experimenting with my own recipe to create that Sweetheart Stout. but having difficulties recreating the "sweet" taste using Lactose and Maltodextrin but having watched this I think I've been going about it the wrong way as I perhaps should be reducing the hops to increase the sweetness? cheers :)

Not to change the subject to hops and I and I apologize for my ignorance I have a question about brewing knowing your boil off rate and approximately what's going to be absorbed by the grainNot to change the subject to hops and I and I apologize for my ignorance I have a question about brewing knowing your boil off rate and approximately what's going to be absorbed by the Grains Is that considered in the recipe at the beginning or do we need to adjust but just to add water for our losses

Hi David sorry for annoying you again about the dead space in the g40 ie 7.5 litres of water will I be able to recover it on brew day or is it really lost if so I will struggle to get my two 20 litre fermenters thanks any help much appreciated thanks

Another good one Dave ,have you ever used the missile as a 'Randall' ?

Hallo, I have some doubts about AA because I had used northdown hop with 7,9 AA to make a beer with ibu 40 and another batch with Chinook hop with 11 AA, the bitterness with Chinook is not the same, AA is not good for calculating ibu y think the cohumulone percentage is the answer

Hi David/ Beer Guru haha, Can I ask some advice please? Test batch 5 getting there, colour and taste good but just not sweet like Sweetheart Stout. 10L Batch 300g Lactose, 150G Maltodextrin, 20g East Kent. If I reduce the hops to 10g do you think this will produce a sweeter taste? Thanks in advance :)

First again :-)

Too much hopping, your beer keeps flopping. Tons of hops? Call the cops!