making beer?

Question

how do you malt your own hops?? We have a home brewery system and i was wondering what exatcly is in the can of gross looking liquid and how do you make it like that? the ingredents says that it is malted hops and so how exactly do you malt hops????

Answer 1

Don't you mean hopped malt? Malt with the hops already added. Never heard of malted hops.

Answer 2

You probably have malt extract. It's from malted barley, or other grains.

Malted barley:

Start with barley. Allow it to germenate slightly (ie, begin to grow a plant). Stop the growth by heating it up.

In a quality commercial brew, they add this to boiling water to make a wort.

In a homebrew, you can use malted extract to add to water to make the wort. It accomplishes the same thing, it's a way to get flavor and sugar into the water for the yeast to eat. Hops are then added, usually in doses. These will probably come in pellet form, although you could buy the actual hop flowers whole, as you would use in a quality commercial brew.

Answer 3

You don't malt hops; you malt grain.

The liquid is malt extract.

It's made by mashing a base malt (ie: 2-row pale or pilsner, etc) and boiling the mash liquid down where it's 10 percent water.

Sometimes a can has hopped malt extract. In this case, hops are added to the boil.

Answer 4

For the time being, I suggest that you stick to using the malt extract that comes in cans. If you need to beef up the beer, you can supplement with dried malt extract; it's easier to save part of a bag of powder than part of a can of liquid. (It may solidify but it will still be good.) You can either get hopped malt extract or add your own hops. Gradually increase the complexity of your recipes, as by incorporating specialty grains. Eventually, you may want to go to all-grain recipes. Not many homebrewers go so far as to malt their own grain.