- 1 oz Warrior
- 1 oz Centennial
This was my first time making hop water. Most recipes I found talked about boiling water for 10 minutes first, cooling partially, and then steeping hops for a while. I thought that it would make sense to steep the hops first and then boil, which seemed more similar to beer-making and also meant that I wasn’t putting an unsanitized muslin bag into the water post-boil.
The procedure I used was:
- Start with 5 gallons of water from the water heater (140F).
- Add hops to muslin bag and place in brew pot.
- Turn heat on high to begin heating water.
- Leave hops in for 30 minutes as water heated from 140F to 188F.
- Remove hops and allow water to come to boil.
- Boil for 10 minutes.
- Cool in ice bath and with stirring.
- Pour into keg.
- The hop water was still hot at this point since I did not use a wort chiller to chill it.
- I had more than could fit in the keg so kept some behind.
- Many hop particles were present going into the keg.
Two days after brew day, I poured some from the keg. It had quite a bit of hop sediment that had settled to the bottom of the keg, and wasn’t carbonated yet. The hop taste was super strong and there were many hop chunks. I could possibly filter to remove them, but I’m wondering if just a few initial pours will also remove them. First pour was too hoppy, but that was tamed by adding some water flavoring.