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Bottle Hopping?
This is a two parter. I had some Chinook hops in leaf form and decided to throw some into a few of the bottles I was bottling to see what the effect was. It came out absolutely great and I'm planning on doing it in the future when appropriate. All I had to do was pour the beer in my glass through a ladle type spoon with holes in it. Amazing addition to the flavor and aroma and tasted unbelievablely better than the other bottles that didn't have them.
My question is what type of effect would this this have on the carbonation process? I am still somewhat new to homebrewing and this particualr batch carbonated very poorly, except for the bottles that I put the hops in; they were carbonated just fine. Has anyone ever experienced this, or heard of it happening?
Late hopping can help with head retention and foam cling so thats what you might be seeing and its not a bad idea Dogfishhead have a Draft hopback they use to dispese beers called Randall The Enamel Animal.
http://www.dogfish.com/news/Randall_The … /index.htm
Heres a homebrew version with instructions
http://www.maltosefalcons.com/clubgear/hashback/
I would think that the hop flower would lend nucleation sites that would force the CO2 out of solution after the bottled is open. I would expect maybe the fizz to die down faster than a non bottle hopped version.
I think it may carb up fine in the bottle, but yuo'll loose fizz faster.
Not a big deal though espcially if it gets you the hop aroma effects you are looking for.
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