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have half a beer pitcher of cascade that were in a Randall with Hop Stoopid being poured through it. I want to make a hot sauce using them. Anybody try something like this before? Any general tips when cooking with hops?
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Hops, obviously, are really bitter. Whatever you make is going to be strong. Maybe you try something like a pesto?
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I make hot sauce every year but have never used hops....sounds fun!
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If you do a hot sauce you could boil the hops in the vinegar first. That should infuse the flavor. You could pitch the actual hops then.
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Not going to use vinegar in this one. I have a couple sauces that use pineapple or orange juice in conjunction with lemon or lime juice. I’ve got 32oz of a pineapple/orange juice blend, probably will do a taste test with a hop with lemon and lime juice to see what to use.
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can’t wait to try it, although i may be all hopped out for awhile! haha that last pint really got me that night.
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Hell I would just throw some hops in while your boiling it. Why not!
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I never boil any of my ingredients, I smoke all my peppers....smoked hops? 
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This’d be the direction I’d go. Break them out into about 10 equal batches so I can mess up a few times. :-)
I’d probably mess around with something like mint and cilantro in there to balance the harshness of the Cascade bitterness without masking it.
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It might be interesting to chop some of the cones up fine like and put in a salsa replacing some but not all of the cilantro.
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I usually grill the solid ingredients (don’t have a smoker), perhaps some foil or a sort of mesh to put the hops on the grill sounds good, think I’ll do two small batches, one on the grill, one fresh
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