About This Course

This course includes 40+ minutes of video

In this video course, Alvarado Street cofounder and brewing director J.C. Hill lays out the techniques and tips that he and his team follow to coax out that winning hop aroma and flavor, including: 

  • the process and thinking behind large knockout-hop additions
  • how to harness biotransformation to unlock more hop aroma
  • using enzymes to activate more aromatic hop compounds
  • double dry hopping and other dry-hop techniques
  • adjusting dry hops to balance with knockout additions
  • the aroma advantages of spunding
  • how to control for hop creep
  • understanding and taking advantage of thiols
  • using other new hop-aroma products

And much more.

Instructor

Following the mantra, “Drink fresh, burp hops,” Alvarado Street Brewing in Monterey County, California, has established a strong reputation for brewing beautifully aromatic and highly drinkable IPAs and other beers. Its all-Mosaic top-seller Mai Tai PA has taken two golds, a silver, and a bronze medal home from the annual Great American Beer Festival—and the brewery’s only been around since 2014. Driving that success is an obsession with all the details of brewing, especially when it comes to maximizing and fine-tuning the hop aroma of IPAs.

J.C. Hill

Cofounder and Brewing Director, Alvarado Street Brewing

Course Curriculum

  • 01

    Welcome

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    • Welcome
  • 02

    Maximizing Hop Flavors with Enzymes

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    • Biotransformation

    • The Essentials of Hops’ Essential Aroma Compounds

    • Traditional Hopping vs. Hopping with Enzymes

    • About Biotransformation, β-glucosidase & β-lyase

    • Double Dry Hopping

    • Hazy IPA Hopping with Enzymes

    • Randy Mosher Deconstructs the Heady Aromas of IPA
  • 03

    Thiols

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    • Thiols

    • The Complex Case of Thiols

    • Thiols, Unchained: More Ways to Unlock Tropical Aromas
  • 04

    Different Hop Products

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    • Overview and Use Cases for Alternative Hop Products

    • Keeping Up with the New Hop Products
  • 05

    Conclusion, Recipes & Further Reading/Listening

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    • Thank You

    • ​​Breakout Brewer: Alvarado Street

    • Recipe: Alvarado Street Contains No Juice Expressive IPA

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