What Are Hops and How Can I Use Them?
Wondering what to do with hops? This guide covers how to pick them, cook them, store them, and swap them, plus 8 recipes to put them to work.
- In Chinese:
- 酒花
- British (UK) term:
- Hops
- en français:
- houblon
- en español:
- lúpulo
Recipes using hops
There are 8 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Double Stout
Rich, full-bodied homebrew stout made with dark malt extract, roasted barley, and black patent malt for deep chocolate and coffee notes.
Double Stout
Rich, full-bodied homebrew stout made with dark malt extract, roasted barley, and black patent malt for deep chocolate and coffee notes.
Farmer's Yeast
Farmer's yeast starter, the old-fashioned way. Hops, potatoes, honey, and whole wheat flour build a wild, lively starter for hand-raised loaves. Refrigerator-keeper.
Dad's Saxon Yeast
Dad's Saxon yeast is a heritage homemade yeast cake recipe from Transylvanian Saxon tradition, made by boiling hops, fermenting with rye flour, then drying into preserved cakes for bread baking. Old-world sourdough-adjacent craft.
Cinnamon Honey Ale
Cinnamon honey ale homebrew with dry malt, raw honey, whole cinnamon bark, and ale yeast. A 5-gallon batch that ages beautifully into warm, spiced amber ale perfect for fall.
Cinnamon Honey Ale
Cinnamon honey ale homebrew with dry malt, raw honey, whole cinnamon bark, and ale yeast. A 5-gallon batch that ages beautifully into warm, spiced amber ale perfect for fall.
Yeast-Starter Mixture
Hops yeast starter brews a traditional wild-yeast bread starter from hops, malt flour, brown sugar, and water. The pre-commercial baking technique used by pioneers and old-time home bakers.
Sourdough Bread (Carl's)
Hearty sourdough bread packed with oats, whole wheat, wheat germ, and bran. An overnight starter method with an optional hop tea twist for faster rising and complex flavor.
