Homegrown Hop AA%
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Homegrown Hop AA%
If you could get your homegrown hops tested for approximate AA% would you do it? How much would you be willing to pay?
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Re: Homegrown Hop AA%
Nothing. Get hops über cheap on the group buys from manufacturers that have extremely detailed AA testing/measuring.
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Re: Homegrown Hop AA%
I'll second this.sleepyjamie wrote:Nothing. Get hops über cheap on the group buys from manufacturers that have extremely detailed AA testing/measuring.

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Re: Homegrown Hop AA%
Damn, thought I'd be able to mix my work and my hobby there for a second! Haha 

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Well you have the price we are willing to pay ( cheep cheep ) so you can do this for us free?adams81 wrote:Damn, thought I'd be able to mix my work and my hobby there for a second! Haha
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Re: Homegrown Hop AA%
To get %AA as accurately as commercial hops would need a uv spec that costs (cheap) about two thousand. There is a titration that can be done that would be more crude, lumping the alpha and beta acid together. I've never done it but I see some people have on the net,and the cost to do it would be very cheap. I don't know how useful that would be though. Would have to test it out on some commercial strains first.
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Re: Homegrown Hop AA%
sleepyjamie wrote:Nothing. Get hops über cheap on the group buys from manufacturers that have extremely detailed AA testing/measuring.
Ok so I am tire of paying too much for hops, 6 oz cost me $16 the other day. What time of year are the group buys going in. I don't check the board all that often.
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I'd check the group buy section for the ncm and hop contract orders
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Re: Homegrown Hop AA%
Jeez, an order from Hops Direct would be cheaper than $16 for 6 Oz for sure, especially if you order multiple pounds.
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Re: Homegrown Hop AA%
Did you see this " http://www.brewnosers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4029" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; " thread? order is going in today, and will be cheeper than local competitionSobeys wrote:sleepyjamie wrote:Nothing. Get hops über cheap on the group buys from manufacturers that have extremely detailed AA testing/measuring.
Ok so I am tire of paying too much for hops, 6 oz cost me $16 the other day. What time of year are the group buys going in. I don't check the board all that often.
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Re: Homegrown Hop AA%
The titration method is garbage. Even the UV spec method is dicey without suitable replication. The HPLC method is the best. We will do it in our lab for free if you are a grower. There is a guy in Bathurst at the community college, Kevin Sheil, that will do it for $30.
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Re: Homegrown Hop AA%
Nice, HPLC is definitely the way to go!wortly wrote:The titration method is garbage. Even the UV spec method is dicey without suitable replication. The HPLC method is the best. We will do it in our lab for free if you are a grower. There is a guy in Bathurst at the community college, Kevin Sheil, that will do it for $30.
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Re: Homegrown Hop AA%
I'm trying to build an HPLC in my basement, fitting by fitting, piston by piston.
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I'm not very far.
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I'm not very far.
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