I’m wondering if anyone can shed some light on the process/equipment Hopsteiner is using to create their variety-specific hop oils. Thanks for any thoughts or insight.
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Looks like hop kief boiling in water.
Theres a condenser attached to the top of the hydrosol seperator.
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Yeah, nothing fancy or out of the extraordinary here. Probably not representative of what they actually use industrially (pressurized steam).
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Can’t beat $90 steam boiler
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I’ve used this exact unit for pulling terps from hops. Can confirm it works
Anyone tried rosin from hops? Couple guys I knew in Denver said it was amazing for beer making.
Edit: They even dabbed it, haha.
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I’ve used steam distilled terps from hops to flavor food when I worked at a brewery. You haven’t lived til you’ve eaten a creme brulee that tastes like your favorite beer.
I’d bathe in Galaxy hop oil if I could.
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The perfect friday night!
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@cyclopath, did we ever get those hops extracts tested (made many years ago)?
I know you get crude when extracted in a similar method to cannabis (we used ethanol), but I couldn’t tell you what’s in it. Certainly smelled like hops, though. 
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I wonder what some lightly crc’d hydrocarbon hop extract would be like…
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Probably super waxy and loaded with sugar!
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dude how did it dab? I’m so down to try. Is it possible to butane or propane extract hops?
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They said it tasted great, I would imagine so, probably lots of terps.
I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to, I’d wager it’s been done before.
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might be some great meds… I can’t think of any product that includes hop terps. closest thing is beer but that’s fermented which might degrade terps and isn’t as ckncentrated or refined as a butane extract
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I’ve dabbed co2 hop oil, the aroma is tasty but the alpha/beta acids are nasty and harsh.
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for sure. might be better to eat?
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do you like beers like ipa’s out of curiosity?
Have you smelled citra?
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The alpha acids isomerize during regular boiling in beer making, I bet that was bitter!
It is a dual-use hop. I have used it for bittering and aroma. The grapefruit/passionfruit terps with an earthy undertone are reminiscent of a lot of the citrus strains of cannabis these days. I would even love a Galaxy hop craft cocktail for the complexity.
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