[majorvices]

Anyone use fresh "wet" hops as a dry hop?

[denny]

I did it once...chlorophyll city.

[majorvices]

I did it once...chlorophyll city.

Thanks!

[pete b]

I'm planning to make a fresh hop beer real soon. My plan is to use fresh cascade right off the vine in a hopstand, steep some of the fresh picked hops in alcohol in a French press to make a tincture, dry the remaining hops, dry hop with some of them, and use the extract at bottling. The aim is a lot of fresh hop flavor sans chlorophyll and "grassiness".

[denny]

I'm planning to make a fresh hop beer real soon. My plan is to use fresh cascade right off the vine in a hopstand, steep some of the fresh picked hops in alcohol in a French press to make a tincture, dry the remaining hops, dry hop with some of them, and use the extract at bottling. The aim is a lot of fresh hop flavor sans chlorophyll and "grassiness".

Have you made a tincture like that before? 

[pete b]

Yes I did last year and loved it. I dosed individual beers with it and also flavored soda water with it when I didn't want to drink alcohol but wanted a tasty night time beverage.

[yso191]

I am also going to make a wet hop IPA soon.  I have tasted several at the Fresh Hop Ale Fest, both commercial and Homebrew - I don't recall any grassiness.  I can't imagine all of them were done with the tincture method...

I also have the handouts from a presentation by Bale Breaker brewery that was given to our Homebrew club.  there was no mention of special processes to avoid chlorophyll/grassiness.

[klickitat jim]

Would it be cheating to throw them on a fan overnight and dry them out?

[stpug]

Would it be cheating to throw them on a fan overnight and dry them out?

That's what I do; actually 36-48 hours. I still call it a "fresh hop" beer, just not a "wet hop" beer. I think you can get away with wet hops in the hot side but, like denny said, chlorophyll city when dry hopping with wet hops. I prefer not to have the grassy character you get from excessive wet hops.

[yso191]

Would it be cheating to throw them on a fan overnight and dry them out?

Not if you don't enter them in a Fresh Hop competition.  The Fresh Hop Ale Fest says no drying is allowed for beers entered in their competition.