Bad scale or value added hops?

Levers101 · 12-29-2006, 12:41 AM

I've notice this before, but when I brew I always get the scale out and weigh my hops before I add them, and every time the nominal 1 oz of hops in the vacuum sealed package weighs 1.2-1.4 oz. Unless of course my scale is off, but it seems to calibrate right with volumes of water. I guess you get more than what you pay for. When I did my first couple of brews I had no such scale, and got bit by the extra amount of hops... especially on the Hefe I did with a late boil addition.

Does everyone else get more hops than 1 oz? Just curious.

**Yuri_Rage** · 12-29-2006, 12:56 AM

I find this as well with the small foil packages of pellet hops. It gets even better with bulk leaf hops from www.hopsdirect.com. They almost always send more than you ordered - sometimes by as much as half a pound!

teu1003 · 12-29-2006, 01:16 AM

the foil packs of pellet hops i use consistently weigh 1.15 ounces

dcbrewmeister · 12-29-2006, 02:33 AM

It's just so you won't bitch that you got "shorted".

dcbrewmeister · 12-29-2006, 02:54 AM

Had to look that one up

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