How many brewers use fake hops?

Also the beer you listed as starting this for you, hop stoopid, has some old school lagunitas literary hyperbole about a mad scientist and his insanely hopped laboratory creation left over from the ibu wars. The hop extracts I've seen are all made with super critical co2

 

I hope you are just trolling bit one more time, hop extract doesn't have anything in it other than hops. There is nothing fake, synthetic, or artificial involved. You could call them processed but there isn't anything besides hops flowers in them

 

Someone call Webster’s! Their definition of ‘synthetic’ is obviously lacking.

 

FFS, they are not synthetic, or fake. Do you consider hop pellets fake?

 

If you can find a way to buy them with fake money, you’d really be onto something.

 

News flash. Many breweries use fake water. Filtered, pH adjusted, minerals added.

Hey, the yeast is from a lab, unless there do wild fermentation.

 

This whole thread is fake news. Ironic, huh.

 

Hop extract is used for bittering because there is less physical matter in the beer leading to higher yields. There’s no point in using the full hop cones in the boil as a large amount of it is vegetal matter. Hop extract is mostly just the vegetal matter stripped away. It DEFINITELY isn’t cutting corners, if anything it helps the finished product. As far as I know, NO breweries are using synthetic hop compounds (what would be described as fake hops) in their beers

HOP EXTRACT =//= FAKE HOPS. THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK

Can we PLEASE shut this thread down now?

 

Holy clickbait Batman!

 

This dude is a either a troll, or doesn't care enough to even try learning from others who go out of their way to teach. He's very rude either way.

 

Amazing how natural has become some buzzword that acts as some kind of guarantee. Peanuts and gluten are natural but can have horrific effects on people.

 

And malting itself is pretty exploitative, taking advantage of a natural process for mankind's selfish use. Poor little barley corns* are soaked in water until they germinate - cool, they think they're about to grow into beautiful, tall stalks of barley as they were destined to become ("Amber Waves of Grains" and all that) but, no, man then takes those newborn spouts and thrown 'em into a kiln and bakes 'em to death!

Later grinds them, and then boils them, and often feeds their little dead bodies to the cows....

* For the story of where those barley corns came from in the first place, refer to Traffic's version John Barleycorn Must Die.

 

The easier question is to ask which breweries use whole cone hops. The top 3

Sierra Nevada
Deschutes
Victory (I think they are 3rd).

CO2 Extract is made in a large processing facility, more of a factory, they do something like 5000 lbs of pellets at a time.

 

OMG! My mom used "fake" vanilla in her baking all those years & passed off that delicious favor as vanilla extract, oh the shame she has brought to my family !

MG

 

syn·thet·ic
/sinˈTHedik/
adjective:

• 1.(of a substance) made by chemical synthesis, especially to imitate a natural product:"synthetic rubber"
• 2.(of a proposition) having truth or falsity determinable by recourse to experience.

noun:
1.a synthetic material or chemical, especially a textile fiber.


Bolding above by me. There is certainly no chemical birthing of an extracted solution from a "natural product" therefore hop extract is natural.

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trolling

 

I guess when I make my chicken cacciatore that I use dried thyme, rosemary, and oregano I’m using fake shit. Actually the dried components are more potent than fresh, but I can do either. I’d assume hops may follow that trend.