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How to Make Hops Salted Caramel Sauce

The latest addition to our growing cooking with craft beer recipe collection is this hops salted caramel sauce. A few days ago I really needed caramel sauce to drizzle over something (the something is coming up soon) and you know about what necessity tends to inspire…

Hops Salted Caramel Sauce Yumminess

I thought that if I was going to whip up a salted caramel concoction it may as well be a hops salted caramel sauce. So here is the latest Perrine craft beering contribution to all hop heads and salted caramel lovers alike. And all fans of good tasting delicacies.

Mosaic Hop Salt to use in Hops Salted Caramel Sauce

Since we were low on hops salt I made a fresh batch, this time with Mosaic hop pellets. As a refresher, Mosaics are one of the newest hop strains first ‘released’ in 2012.

Even though their alpha acid content is pretty high, ranging from 10.5% to 14%, they are also used as an aroma hop, frequently in dry-hopping too, and contribute  a variety of pleasing notes ranging from tangerine, blueberry and papaya to pine, herbal and even bubble gum.

Needless to say they are enjoying increasing popularity and their production has been growing exponentially since 2012. We had some pellets left from Chris’ last home brew and I found smelled them to be a great choice for this hops salted caramel sauce.

Hops Salted Caramel Sauce dripping from spoon.

Homemade salted caramel is a breeze to create and that fact emboldened me to document the recipe steps in video format.

Aaaand! Drum roll!

Here is a video.

(Definitely learned a thing or two while making it, so all future videos we post will be much better! Chris liked this one though, which is encouraging:)

Before I wrap up this post – take a guess, just for fun. Who do you think liked the hops salted caramel sauce the most in our tiny family?

Hops Salted Caramel Sauce in Jar

If you guessed the seven year old – you are right. He described it like this – “It’s both sweet and salty, my favorite flavors, but it also tastes like something else, really good…”

A moment of parental joy – maybe he will like craft beer one day after all… For now, he frowns at soda, which is great news really. Carbonation and our little one do not agree with each other. Period. He thinks Chris and I are confused about the good things in life. Because we like beer. He cannot imagine how a carbonated drink can be pleasing to anyone. Even if it is sweet.

Plenty of time though, he might one day join our beer tasting table. For now I am actually happy that he has zero interest in soda.

4.86 from 7 votes
Hops Salted Caramel Sauce
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Hops Salted Caramel Sauce
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
5 mins
Total Time
10 mins
 
Showcasing the enigmatic flavors of hops in a hops salted caramel sauce. Hop heads and salted caramel fans rejoice! You can whip this one up in less than 10 minutes. Drizzle over ice cream, fruit, cake, baked goods. Use as a dip for fruit or even cheese. Use your imagination. Pair with IPA, pale ale, stout.
Course: Sweets/Dessert
Servings: 8 oz
Author: Milena www.craftbeering.com
Ingredients
  • 1 stick unsalted butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar if you use light, the sauce will be lighter; dark for a darker sauce
  • 4 tbps of regular whipping cream not heavy whipping cream
  • hops salt to taste recommended at least 1/2 tsp; make your own hops salt in no time https://craftbeering.com/how-to-make-hop-salt/
Instructions
  1. In a sauce pan over medium heat combine the butter, brown sugar and cream.
  2. Stir until smooth and bring to simmer.
  3. Let simmer for 4 mins.
  4. Turn off heat and sprinkle with the hops salt.
  5. Stir and remove from stove, let cool off and thicken for a few minutes.
  6. When it is comfortable to the touch, taste it and add more hops salt if desired.
  7. Stir and transfer to an air tight glass container or use right away (drizzle, use as a glaze, even eat straight with a spoon:)
  8. Store in refrigerator and warm up in a water bath or in the microwave for a few seconds before next use. (Note: this is a small enough batch to where this may not be necessary)
Hops Salted Caramel Sauce. With super fragrant, juicy Mosaic hops. The ultimate treat for hopheads and salted caramel lovers alike.

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Comments

  7. Your Caramel Sauce will be awesome on our homemade Ice Cream! Thanks so much for sharing your post with us at Full Plate Thursday and have a great weekend!
    Miz Helen

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  8. As always your posts take flavour to a whole other level. Amazing. Pinning as this is so out of the ordinary every day.

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  13. Every time I make caramel sauce i always burn it, it looks so easy but its not as easy as it looks. Then I read your post and you gave me more hope to give it another shot. I love the video! I can’t wait to see more 😉

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    • Do give it another shot Mary! From making peanut brittle I know that if you go past the hard candy boiling temp you burn the caramel…This sauce doesn’t cook long enough to burn:) You will shine.

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  16. This might be more than you want to know about me, but I’m drooling all over my computer. This sounds AMAZING! Eat it out of the jar with a spoon amazing. Your video was great too! I had to watch several times for research purposes (and because, ummmm, salted caramel). I’m still too intimidated to try doing one. . . Have a great week, Milena!

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    • Lol! My son pretty much finished the jar spoon in hand as soon as I used what I needed for drizzling over the next recipe we’ll be posting:). I am sure you will make some great videos:) Thank you for the encouragement Kelsie!

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  19. Love sweet and salty combos. LOVE!! And let’s talk about that video! High five! What an AWESOME job! It was mesmerizing to watch 🙂 So good! Can’t wait to see what you use it on. Though, I could pretty much eat that straight up, lol. P.S. So awesome that your son doesn’t care for soda! My niece is like that too; she would much rather water any day. Have an awesome week, you guys!

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    • You are too kind Dawn:) Thank you for the support! Sounds great about your niece – pretty much an identical situation.

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