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.
5 chapters · 16 lessons · 43m
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Your instructor
J.C. Hill
Cofounder and Brewing Director, Alvarado Street Brewing
Following the mantra, “Drink fresh, burp hops,” Alvarado Street Brewing in Monterey County, California, has established a strong reputation for brewing beautifully aromatic and highly drinkable IPAs and other beers. Its all-Mosaic top-seller Mai Tai PA has taken two golds, a silver, and a bronze medal home from the annual Great American Beer Festival—and the brewery’s only been around since 2014. Driving that success is an obsession with all the details of brewing, especially when it comes to maximizing and fine-tuning the hop aroma of IPAs.
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
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 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