Craft Beer & Brewing Course
Enzymes and Other Tricks for Boosting Hop Aroma, the Alvarado Street Way
Alvarado Street’s J.C. Hill leads this master class in using knockout hops, yeast, enzymes, and other techniques to squeeze the most aroma and flavor out of your hops.
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In this video course, Alvarado Street cofounder and brewing director J.C. Hill lays out the techniques and tips that he and his team follow to coax out that winning hop aroma and flavor, including:
- the process and thinking behind large knockout-hop additions
- how to harness biotransformation to unlock more hop aroma
- using enzymes to activate more aromatic hop compounds
- double dry hopping and other dry-hop techniques
- adjusting dry hops to balance with knockout additions
- the aroma advantages of spunding
- how to control for hop creep
- understanding and taking advantage of thiols
- using other new hop-aroma products
And much more.
Course contents
5 chapters, 16 lessons, 43m of video
Chapter 1
Welcome
- Welcome5:09
Chapter 2
Maximizing Hop Flavors with Enzymes
- Biotransformation9:59
- The Essentials of Hops’ Essential Aroma Compounds
- Traditional Hopping vs. Hopping with Enzymes2:44
- About Biotransformation, β-glucosidase & β-lyase
- Double Dry Hopping1:18
- Hazy IPA Hopping with Enzymes0:59
- Randy Mosher Deconstructs the Heady Aromas of IPA
Chapter 3
Thiols
- Thiols10:58
- The Complex Case of Thiols
- Thiols, Unchained: More Ways to Unlock Tropical Aromas
Chapter 4
Different Hop Products
- Overview and Use Cases for Alternative Hop Products10:47
- Keeping Up with the New Hop Products
Chapter 5
Conclusion, Recipes & Further Reading/Listening
- Thank You1:10
- Breakout Brewer: Alvarado Street
- Recipe: Alvarado Street Contains No Juice Expressive IPA
What students say
Really good stuff!
Like my title says "Really Good Stuff". Covers thiols, biotransformation, advanced hop products and whose making them and how to use them. I got some good information.
Great start to understanding Enzymes in brewing
Great introduction to Enzymes in brewing with a practical examples as well as do's and don'ts.
Excellent review of techniques to evaluate various hops
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Thiol
Brewing with phantasm has been a learning curve. Mash hopping has provided best results.
I think the title is accurate in the sense that this is literally what works for Alvarado Street
The text was great. I will likely refer to it when I need a refresher.
Alvarado Magic
I love how Alvarado is pushing the limits on using new yeast and hop products to create great beers. I'm going to have to try some of these new products and see for myself.
Review from Sweden
Fantastic !!
Enzymes
Using enzymes in the brewery was extremely interesting.
Title caught my attention
Got me wanting to hear more