So im getting married in a year and being the beer snobs that me and my fiance are were going to have a lot of the elements of the wedding influenced by beer. One of the many beer related ideas was to have the invitations sent in a bottle it the label on it designed specifically for us. We got that part down and actually made a tester of that and looks great. The thing that I have a question about is the next part to the beer bottle invite. I want to throw in some hops, probably full leave cause they are more ascetically pleasing, so that when they open the bottle up their hit with hop aroma. I was thinking citrusy american hops like citra and cascade. Will this work? Will they actually smell the hops after opening it?
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You don't need to have hop cones (I'm assuming that's what you mean by leaves) floating in your beer in order to have a strong hop aroma...
A lot of the masters of ipa's like Matt Bryndilson, Vinnie Cilurzo, and John Kimmich of Firestone/Russian River/The Alchemist (heady topper) all use hop extract and pellets in their beers. Some of it has to do with minimizing wort loss but a lot of it has to do with minimizing vegetal flavors and increasing the overall hop profile.
Also massive amounts of late addition/flame out/ whirlpool hops + rapid chilling and minimizing oxidation by carefully handling and minimalizing the amount of transfers is critical.
A lot of the masters of ipa's like Matt Bryndilson, Vinnie Cilurzo, and John Kimmich of Firestone/Russian River/The Alchemist (heady topper) all use hop extract and pellets in their beers. Some of it has to do with minimizing wort loss but a lot of it has to do with minimizing vegetal flavors and increasing the overall hop profile.
Also massive amounts of late addition/flame out/ whirlpool hops + rapid chilling and minimizing oxidation by carefully handling and minimalizing the amount of transfers is critical.
I think you may be right, and that folks is what happens when I respond to a thread at 130 am on a Friday.... I mean Saturday morning. I haven't even had a drop to drink I swear
Yeah empty bottles with the invite inside of them. A friend designed the labels already so im going to get some hops so time next week and do a tester to see if i get some aroma when opening the bottle. Im planning to leave it outside for a couple of day to simulate the shipping journey. Maybe the heat will help releases some of those beautiful hop aromas.
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