Sparging....the late hops sock?

[BreweyMcHops]

Why cant I find info on this? When I have a fat hops sock swollen with 200g of C hops, that's been in there a few days, at bottling time does anyone else experiment with a hot sparge of the hops sock?

I have and it seems to be like adding hops at flameout, some bittering and some flavour . It does seem to give you more bang for your buck. It seems like a waste to chuck it!

 

 

[Classic Brewing Co]

8 hours ago, BreweyMcHops said:

Why cant I find info on this? When I have a fat hops sock swollen with 200g of C hops, that's been in there a few days, at bottling time does anyone else experiment with a hot sparge of the hops sock?

I have and it seems to be like adding hops at flameout, some bittering and some flavour . It does seem to give you more bang for your buck. It seems like a waste to chuck it!

 

 

I really don't know but I am thinking spent hops would be very bitter & unpleasant if re-introduced back into the brew. It is something I have never heard of but I am sure there are hop pundits out there waiting to prove me wrong. I sprinkle mine into the garden rather than just chuck them, who knows I may wake up one morning & it could be all about Jack & the Hopstalk 

[Aussiekraut]

8 hours ago, BreweyMcHops said:

Why cant I find info on this? When I have a fat hops sock swollen with 200g of C hops, that's been in there a few days, at bottling time does anyone else experiment with a hot sparge of the hops sock?

I have and it seems to be like adding hops at flameout, some bittering and some flavour . It does seem to give you more bang for your buck. It seems like a waste to chuck it!

 

 

Never heard of a practice like that. I simply squeeze the living hell out of the hop sock and be done with it. Quite frankly, I cannot imagine there being too much bitterness to be extracted. While you can apparently use dry hops for bittering, it requires a decent boil or at least a steep in hot wort/water. A "sparge" wouldn't be long enough to extract anything meaningful.

 

[BreweyMcHops]

3 hours ago, Aussiekraut said:

Never heard of a practice like that. I simply squeeze the living hell out of the hop sock and be done with it. Quite frankly, I cannot imagine there being too much bitterness to be extracted. While you can apparently use dry hops for bittering, it requires a decent boil or at least a steep in hot wort/water. A "sparge" wouldn't be long enough to extract anything meaningful.

 

I thought that too but if you have 200g of hops it turns out there is some noticable bitterness to be extracted with a sparge with boiling water and 10 min steep . It's about the flavours though I already have it bitteted by this point I'm actually trying not to add a whole lot more

[Shamus O'Sean]

26 minutes ago, BreweyMcHops said:

I thought that too but if you have 200g of hops it turns out there is some noticable bitterness to be extracted with a sparge with boiling water and 10 min steep . It's about the flavours though I already have it bitteted by this point I'm actually trying not to add a whole lot more

I have not done it.  But if it works for you, keep doin' it.  I do understand what you are saying.  The dry hops in a Chux cloth I pull out of a fermenter still smell so good.  There must be something more to extract from them.  So far I just do like Aussiekraut, and squeeze the ba-jimenies out of the Chux cloth to get whatever extra I can.

[Tone boy]

So do you guys use sanitized gloves when squeezing out the hop juice? Or not bother?

[RDT2]

2 minutes ago, Tone boy said:

So do you guys use sanitized gloves when squeezing out the hop juice? Or not bother?

The times I have done it I have sanitised a set of tongs by boiling in water for 10 to 15 minutes then used starsan then squeezed with the tongs.

[Aussiekraut]

2 hours ago, Tone boy said:

So do you guys use sanitized gloves when squeezing out the hop juice? Or not bother?

I never used to. I only sprayed my hands with starsan but considering you will never get all the nasties out of the pores in your skin, I started using brewers gloves and sanitise them beforehand.

 

[Shamus O'Sean]

8 hours ago, Tone boy said:

So do you guys use sanitized gloves when squeezing out the hop juice? Or not bother?

I use powder-free food handling gloves that are twice sprayed with Stellarsan.

[BreweyMcHops]

On 7/14/2022 at 11:27 AM, Tone boy said:

So do you guys use sanitized gloves when squeezing out the hop juice? Or not bother?

No but I sanitize my hands, hard