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charley Guest
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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:47 pm Post subject: infusing hops into cocoa butter |
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Any ideas? I want to infuse hops into chocolate that I am making from bean. I thought I would try to get the hops into some cocoa butter and add that to my conch.
Any suggestions?
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Jim Cooley
Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 377 Location: Seattle
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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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macerate the hell out of the hops and don't heat the cocoa butter much beyond 150° F?
Sometimes when I make an infusion I'll put the contents in a coffee filter and staple it shut, then add to the dilutant. |
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Dilbert
Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 1304 Location: central PA
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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>>get the hops into some cocoa butter
some experimenting may be in order.
from chemistry, some compounds will dissolve in water, some in oil, some in both, some in neither. . . .
the question is: the desired flavor compounds in hops will dissolve into what?
hops being oft used in beer, there's some evidence that - if the beer hop flavor is the one you're after (an not something else in the hops) - it dissolves in aqueous solutions. could be problematic working the water into chocolate . . .
perhaps a alcohol solution? dissolve / carry the flavor compounds, dissolves in fat, (mostly) goes away when heated . . .
shouldn'y take a lot to heat/soak/(..?..) hops in clarified butter and see if the flavors extract. |
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pbone
Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 99 Location: Dutchess County, NYS
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