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I recently kegged and carbonated a Wassail clone only to find it does not have enough hop aroma. Anyone have any experience with the french press hop tea method at this stage of the game?

chris8three wrote:I recently kegged and carbonated a Wassail clone only to find it does not have enough hop aroma. Anyone have any experience with the french press hop tea method at this stage of the game?

This is what I would do. I have a very fine tea strainer. Boil a small amount of water for 15 min then I would put a half OZ of hops in after the water has had some time to cool down. This should be a safe way of adding more hop aroma.

I would use a brew infuser or sanitize a hop bag and throw in some pellets. Toss that into the keg and you will be good to go.

Dry hopping in the keg works awesome. I always double dry hop my double IPA: once in the primary with pellets, and again in the keg with whole flowers in a hop bag. Even with a bag, I would discourage you from using pellets in the keg. Even a small piece can stick in your poppet valve and cause major foaming. Whole flowers + bag in the keg = kick ass aroma.

SacoDeToro wrote:Dry hopping in the keg works awesome. I always double dry hop my double IPA: once in the primary with pellets, and again in the keg with whole flowers in a hop bag. Even with a bag, I would discourage you from using pellets in the keg. Even a small piece can stick in your poppet valve and cause major foaming. Whole flowers + bag in the keg = kick ass aroma.

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however if you are going to do the hop tea thing you should google brian hunt. He has done alot with hop tea experiments. Temperature seems to have alot to do with what flavors you extract from your tea.

Thanks for the info mediumsk. Great article.

My bad I thought you were going for more hop flavor not aroma. Beings you are going for aroma then of course dry hop the shit out of it!