![]() I started off by sanitizing a previously cleaned keg with Starsan solution. To call it a “brew day” would be sort of laughable considering how easy it was, but seeing as I made this hop water while mashing a different beer, I’m comfortable with the terminology. To accomplish this, I came up with the following recipe. My first order of business was determining what characteristics I wanted in my hop water, which based on my assessment of Lagunitas’ version included decent acidity, very high carbonation, and no bitterness while possessing obvious hop character. ![]() Choosing to forgo looking up established recipes and methods for this beverage, I took in what the Lagunitas Hop Hoppy Refresher tasted like and designed a recipe of my own. Simply refreshing!īefore that first four-pack was gone, I knew I’d need to figure out a way to make hop water myself so that I could enjoy it in quantity whenever I felt like it. To say I was stunned would be an understatement, this sparkling hop water was not only incredibly tasty, it had a quality about it that made me never want to put the glass down. The first day of the month, I hunted down some Lagunitas Hop Hoppy Refresher to quench my thirst for something beery while sticking to my goal. I decided to participate in Dry January this year as a way to refresh my body after a holiday season that involved ample consumption of alcohol. To keep brewers happy and satiated yet sober while on the job, they began making non-alcoholic carbonated hop flavored water, a concoction that was spearheaded by homebrewer Paul Tecker in the mid-2000s. According to Lagunitas, regular consumption of beer on the job was killing productivity as employees became lethargic and probably still hungover from the previous day. I love beer, but there are certain occasions where consuming alcoholic beverages just isn’t in the cards and can even be dangerous or illegal. Mosaic Of Change IPA by House Of Pendragon.
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