Hopping Mad About Flavor

I'm sad that there is a market for a product like this.

 

Im going to be buying two of the flavors to test it out.

 

At about .50 cents a beer I don't get why you buy this. You are adding almost $12 to the cost of a case of beer.

If anyone tries this please report back. Interested in what a High Life turns into when you add Porter or pale ale drops to it.

Enjoy

 

........What?

 

Lol, how cool, I like the idea. It's like the fruity stuff you add to water for kids to make juice. I might try one to be honest, why not?

 

I use the ones for water when I'm backpacking in the desert and need to kill the mud hole waters taste. If there is a beer out there that's so bad I need to kill it's flavor with this stuff I think I'll just stick to water or root beer.

 

lipstick on a pig

 

Works great in light beer. Just 5 calories! Will do the trick until someone comes up with an IPA Lite!

 

I've been putting it in my Bud Light all year. Just 5 calories, but really adds a lot of flavor. Pale Ale and Wild Blueberry are my favorites. We infused Pale Ale into a keg of Keystone Light this summer. You would not believe you were drinking Keystone!

 

How much did you need to add to the keg? Based on the web site cost and amount a bottle works with it seems like you spent more than just getting a keg of pale ale.

If you are only doing it as a calorie thing then more power to you. I'm fine with Hamms or high life at around 143 calories. I drink a few a day but don't watch the calorie count

Enjoy

 

You can buy Mad Hops in bulk for around $5 a bottle. We used 10 bottles to flavor a full keg. The keg of Keystone Light was lying around untouched for a while after a party, so I'm not sure exactly what we paid for it, but probably around $75. So that's $125 for a full keg of Mad Hops Pale Ale, which was so popular around our place it lasted about a week. A keg of Sierra Nevada goes for at least twice that around here. A lot of people preferred the bubbly Mad Hops version, to be honest. It's really good.

 

From a pure cost standpoint I can see your reasoning here.

 

Someone should mix Mad Hops Pale Ale with SNPA to see what happens. I'd really be interested in some blind tastings, say, Miller/Mad Hops Pale Ale versus a well known pale ale. It could be like one of those Chevy truck adds, you know when they uncover the Ford looking tarp and they all go "oooh it's a Chevy".

 

I have been using this stuff off-and-on since their Kickstarter campaign last year. The fruit flavors aren't for me, but the Pale Ale, Porter and Lime are quite good. Take a run-of-the-mill Keystone or PBR and turn it into something that is quite drinkable.

But as the founder says, if you're a craft drinker this isn't for you. But it might be a good thing to put in your pocket if you're headed out to a kegger that is serving up only Keystone to at least make YOUR beer taste better!

Kudos to Mr. Hanley for creating it.

 

This like Mio, but for beer. OK, why not take it all the way, mix it with water, add some everclear, and carbonate it

 

What size is a "Full keg"? Traditionally,"Keg" once referred specifically to a quarter barrel of beer - 7.75 gallons (but that usage is now pretty much dead, and every bulk container is called a "keg" ).

But the above comments, based on the cost of the Keystone, seem to be implying ½ Barrels - 15.5 gallons - of Keystone Light and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. "Around here" is vague, but I'd say SNPA in a ½ bbl. keg should retail around $180. Not exactly 2 times $125.

How does one "infuse" beer in a Sankey keg - by design, a "closed kegging system" and does not have a bung?

 

Wait, isn’t lime a fruit.....

 

You forgot to take a spoon, dip it in some creamed corn soup and stir. Got to have those adjuncts.

 

How do you add this to a keg?

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