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Advanced Hopping Methods with Resident Culture Brewing

Craft Beer & Brewing Course

Advanced Hopping Methods with Resident Culture Brewing

Chris Tropeano, founder of Resident Culture Brewing and former brewer at Russian River, covers all of the practical knowledge you need to brew better hoppy beers.

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In this video course, Resident Culture Cofounder + Brewer Chris Tropeano covers:

  • Hops blending
  • Evaluating hops
  • Hopping rates and diminishing returns
  • Hot-side hopping techniques
  • Cold-side hopping techniques
  • Oxygen impacts and reduction
  • The different forms of hops
  • Plus 5 recipes for your next hoppy beer
  • And much more!

Course contents

8 chapters, 26 lessons, 1h 34m of video

Chapter 1

Advanced Hopping Methods

Chapter 2

The Form of Hops

  • Overview10:18
  • 6 Forms of Hops
  • Hop Oils
  • Hop Compounds
  • Hops Thiols

Chapter 3

Hot Side Methods

  • Overview13:25
  • Understanding Bitterness
  • Hop Back1:14
  • Whirlpool Hops in Homebrew

Chapter 4

Evaluating Hops

  • Overview9:00
  • Building Your Own Evaluations
  • Hops Tea

Chapter 5

Cold Side Hopping

  • Overview24:19
  • Rethinking Bitterness
  • Oxygen Reduction3:59
  • Cold Hopping3:36

Chapter 6

Hop Quality & Blending

  • Hops Quality1:28
  • Hop Blending9:38
  • Hopping Rates8:04

Chapter 7

Recipes

  • Pulpit Rock Little Buddy Pale Ale Recipe
  • 450 North Brewing Co. Fruity Nuggets IPA Recipe
  • Parish Brewing Acadiana Haze IPA Recipe
  • Outer Range Blocks of Light IPA Recipe
  • TrimTab Mosaic Singularity IPA Recipe

Chapter 8

Thank You

  • Cheers0:49

What students say

5.0 from 3 reviews
  • Excellent review of techniques to evaluate various hops
    Mike Dwyer
  • very thorough, detailed and in depth information, great class, well articulated by a skilled speaker and brewer
    jennifer chilkotowsky
  • Very detailed and useful information. Valuable for brewers of all skill levels.
    Christopher Buccheri