Co2 Hop Extract?

I'm going to try and use some of this today, but haven't ever really messed with it.

It's 61.1% AA.

I'm looking around and finding that it's all close to the same and people use a generic formula when using it.

At the pre boil 1.055 gravity I'm gonna have in a few, I'm looking for 40-45 IBU's from the extract at 60min. They are saying 10 IBU's per mL in 1.050 wort.

I'm guessing around. 4.4 mL or so of this stuff.. hard to get it to input right in BS2 for me.

Anyone got a better formula, or anything?

 

See, I'm not sure WHAT brand it is. Got it from Yakima Valley hops. I'm assuming it's the same stuff, as they sell the hop shot.

Assuming it is.. it's similar to another sheet I've seen on the stuff.. So I guess I'll just go for my 4.5 mL of it and see what happens!

Appreciate the calc, just flows with the rest of the hopshot and extract things I've seen.

For what it's worth to anyone who looks here or googles. 4.5mL of the hopshot/extract is right on, .180 ounces. I have a pretty accurate precision balance scale I use for hops and water stuff.

 

I'm gonna be around 5.5 gallons finished, pre boil was 1.058, and I'm needing around 50-54 IBU's.

I went with 4.5 mL... Or, I'm about too.

 

I don't think it's cheating at all. I actually look at it as super powerful hop's to bitter my hop heavy beers with. I wouldn't use it in a blonde, or a wheat, or anything that had.. just a few hops in there. I personally think that you NEED some vegetal matter in the beer while it's boiling. However, if you end up putting in a ton of hops in the boil, you WILL get some plant matter taste to the beer. It's something I'm trying to cut out on, and this is really just an experiment if you will.

I'll always use whole leaf to dry hop, and I alway prefer whole leaf to pellet when I brew, but color me crazy, I'm loving the idea of extract to bitter. TONS of big craft guys use it in their highly hopped beers. Russian River uses it.. Ahem.. Heady Topper also uses it as well. #1 and #2 for IPA's.. I'd say it's not a bad product.

 

I just put it in the boil.. Wow.. I put it on a piece of foil, and it just slip right off when I held it into the boil.

Fragrant as any hop I've used, you could SMELL it as soon as it hit the wort. I'm impressed. Easy enough to use, and it's clean. Even filling the 10mL syringes was easy enough with an 18g needle. I think I got around 15 of them, easy syringe is good for 100 IBU's roughly.




I got all that, and my 4.5 mL out of the can. Was still a little left in there, but tough to get out.

My wife is bringing caps home for the syringes, and I'm gonna store them in the fridge until ready to use.

 

Just another tool in the shed.. If we were all about being straight cut, no extract or short cuts anywhere, we'd me malting our own grain, and using only homegrown hops in whole flower form.

 

Well, I've got it chilled down to 60* and in the fermenter on a half cake of WY1217.

Used Simcoe, Cascade, Goldings and Ahtanum in the boil.. It's damn bitter and fragrant as hell with some great hop oil slicks on top of the wort. Should be done in about 3 days, I'll report on the bitterness, since all of my actual hop additions were 10min or less.

 

I didn't really notice that myself. I've seen un broken lupulin glands when I use whole leaf floating around in the beer. But I didn't notice much in the way of resin beads or other matter. I put all my pellet hops in a SS 300micron spider screen, so my wort was pretty clear coming out of the kettle.

There was some hop matter in there, but mostly just break material as I got a killer hot break.

 

Kai's a pretty smart guy, so I'm sure what he saw was correct, but I felt it mixed into wort just as well as any other form would.