Codename : Westfort Chinook Hop Water (2025)
Recipe inspiration : TheBruSho Ultimate Hop Water
Ingredients
- 6 g Chinook hops (See brew notes below)
- 2 L of filtered or distilled water (chlorine in home water may produce off flavours)
- 1 ml dry ale yeast (See brew notes below)
- 6 g of Stevia
- 20 ml Corn (or white) sugar
- 10 ml of lime (or lemon) juice
Vital Stats
Carbonation : 2.4
Steep Day
- Add the water to whatever vessel you will be steeping in.
- Add the hops directly to the water, this is called dry hopping.
- Allow the hops to infuse at room temperature for about 6 hours, or until you get the aroma you like.
- Sanitise everything required for bottling.
- Once the desired aroma has been reached, you will want to strain/filter the hop water to remove most of the gooey stuff. That is the technical term.
- Add the both sugars directly into the bottle, add approximately half the hop water into the bottle, cap it and shake vigorously. This will ensure the sugar is dissolved completely.
- Add the remainder of the hop water to the bottle, cap it, and shake vigorously once again.
- Add the dry yeast directly into the bottle. It is already room temperature, wait 15 minutes for the yeast to re-hydrate.
- Put the cap back on, and shake vigorously, yet again.
- Add the lime (or lemon) juice, cap it, then shake vigorously one last time.
- Add it to the shelf, and wait at least one week for it to carbonate.
Steep Notes
- I used Chinook hops, as I like that pine taste it imparts, I regularly use it in my beer. Use whatever hops that appeal to you. Use more, use less, this is about your taste, too!
- The declared measurement of yeast is purely a guess. I used Mangrove Jack New World Ale yeast in this case. You can use most any yeast you like.
- Knowing the hops would absorb some water, the starting measurement of water to be slightly higher, with the anticipation it would reach the desired 1.9 L.
- I used the Stevia to sweeten the hop water a little, as it is a non-fermentable sugar, it won’t contribute to the carbonation.
- The selection of 6g of Stevia was arbitrary, I added 1 g at a time until I got something that was lightly sweet. Add more or less to suit your taste.
- Using a carbonation calculator, the 20 ml of sugar was chosen to achieve the approximately 2.4 CO2-vol I am hoping for.
Brew & Tasting Notes
- The flavour was really quite good, the lime and choice of hops worked really well.
- The carbonation was good, could have been a little higher.
- The artificial sweetener, not really a fan of the finishing taste.

Steep day : 13-Jan-2025