ChasidicCalvinist
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Anyone familiar with hop-honey? Thoughts on what it will do to a brew?
Anyone familiar with hop-honey? Thoughts on what it will do to a brew?
hop-honey?
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Honey is more or less highly fermentable glucose and fructose with some proteins derived from pollens.
If you add hops to the water-honey mixture for bittering, you need to pay attention to the mix ratio and acid bittering level of the hops. This is called the BU:GU (bittering unit to gravity unit). A measure of .5 is balance between bitterness and sweetness.
Honey is generally an expensive way to increase gravity and ABV. It will "dry" and thin a brew out unless there are some unfermentables in the recipe. In a mixed drink there is no starch conversion so "hop honey" will simply add color, sweetness, bittering, and floral/citrus/pine/spice aroma depending on the hop variety.
Not all hops are created equal because the varieties will differ in aromatic oil content and bitterness, so choose your hop wisely.
If you add hops to the water-honey mixture for bittering, you need to pay attention to the mix ratio and acid bittering level of the hops. This is called the BU:GU (bittering unit to gravity unit). A measure of .5 is balance between bitterness and sweetness.
Honey is generally an expensive way to increase gravity and ABV. It will "dry" and thin a brew out unless there are some unfermentables in the recipe. In a mixed drink there is no starch conversion so "hop honey" will simply add color, sweetness, bittering, and floral/citrus/pine/spice aroma depending on the hop variety.
Not all hops are created equal because the varieties will differ in aromatic oil content and bitterness, so choose your hop wisely.
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