As an alternative and/or addendum to this, I have been putting together a data spreadsheet on hops as well although more from the angle of an extendedBeerXML entry with the specs from each supplier. While I don't have the spreadsheet quite polished up, I have the datasheets posted on my page at Dark Brood - BrewXML. Not too exciting at the moment, but it's a solid data source on the word straight from the suppliers.

major update posted. please see first post of the thread, all links point to the new version. among other changes i've added columns for "substitution" and "traditional style usage", per requests that i've received.

due to silly file size limitations, i've had to cut the PDFs in half. if you want to download a PDF version, be sure to grab both halves ("Letter" parts 1 & 2, or "Legal" parts 1 & 2). might be best to download the XLS and format it yourself.

happy growing!

Very nice compilation... thanks for sharing!

Sweetcell, you can host the file elsewhere and link it here if file sizes are getting in your way.

yeah, but i couldn't come up with anywhere to host them. i don't have any permanent web storage space of my own (bad geek, bad!) and most of the free services i know of have limited storage times.

please feel free to suggest a place for me to stash the PDFs online. i think mediafire doesn't delete files, i'll look into that tonight.

I use photobucket all the time... I believe they allow for .pdf formats, i know i had a .psd on there that is like 25x the size of whatever you are going to put up. (we are talking a pdf size of like a gb)

this is great, thanks for putting this together sweetcell.

Spreadsheet is getting printed out and tucked into my copy of Homebrewer's Garden

If you're stuck, I can host the file for you on my site. I can't offer you a personal upload login (or maybe I can...never looked into it, to be honest), but if you want to email me any future updates, I can update the hosted files...

Here you go: http://www.digitalgibson.com/beer/data/hops/HBT-sweetcell/index.html

Thanks for the updates! Those were some great suggestions.. :)

There is a lot of good info. here. I will download that spreadsheet when I get home, I plan on growing hops this year where the tomato garden is (was). I read that hop growing started here in the northeast, but later moved out west because of disease. It's great there is more tolerant vairietys now. If anyone in the New Hampshire area had good sucess with a certain variety, I would like to hear about it.
Bryan.