Woodfordes Admiral Reserve

[oxford brewer]

Popped into my local HB store yesterday(on company time of course )to pick up some LME,hops and yeast and enquired if he had anything new.He showed me the Admirals Reserve... so i purchased one.
Made up the kit earlier today but before you pitch the yeast it tells you to stir in a sachet of Goldings hop powder?Has anyone else come across hop powder.When i opened the sachet it contained a white powder but a real strong hop aroma.
Brew is bubbling away nicely(as usual i changed the yeast for Safale-04).
Now its time for some dinner

[oxford brewer]

I reckon its isomerised hop extract powder

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3956513.html

I'd imagine the tinned extract is from another Muntons/Woodfordes kit and the hop addative makes the difference/

A solid product for use in the flavoring of food or beverages which comprises a water-insoluble calcium, magnesium, nickel, manganese or zinc isohumolone complex and an alkali metal compound selected from sodium or potassium tripolyphosphate or a mixture of the disodium or dipotassium salt of ethylenediamine tetracetic acid with the tetrasodium or tetrapotassium salt of ethylenediaminetetracetic acid, the molar ratio of the alkali metal compound to the isohumulone present in the water-insoluble isohumulone complex being at least 0.8 to 1. The product can be immediately dissolved in water or an aqueous medium to produce a solution containing no significant amount of insoluble residues. The solution can be used, for example, as a bittering additive for beer.

Its like looking at the ingredients on the back of a tube of toothpaste

[maxashton]

Arm and Hop toothpaste?

[oxford brewer]

Admirals Reserve has been fermenting now for 10 days and the gravity reading is 1.015 at 19c.And this is using Safale-04(not sure if these kits contain more unfermentables than they should...i have tried different dried yeasts in my beers but these kits still seem to finish a little short!
Sometimes get to 1.010 if its an extract recipe that i do,but still think thats a little high for a starting gravity of 1.040
Not going to bother asking if i should pitch more yeast or stir the yeast back into suspension i will let it sit for another week and then wait for a keg to become vacant
Tasted a little sharp from the sample taken(but that was after drinking a sample of my TC with honey and muscavado sugar

[Andy]

[oxford brewer]

Thanks for the update OB...have you checked your PMs ?

You checked yours

[oxford brewer]

Its the best PM i ever had