What do you plan to do with all the hops?

**summersolstice** · 08-18-2009, 01:59 PM

I know that in the past 2-3 years a lot of home brewers planted their own hops in response to the hops shortage of a couple of years ago. I did the same thing. I have two Cascade plants and I harvested a couple of pounds of nice fragrant hops this year. I figure that's a little more than I need for the brewing I do in a year - using Cascade at any rate.

Reading some of the other post I see some folks have planted 5, 10, 20 or more plants. My questions is: what does everyone plan to do with their excess?

**IrregularPulse** · 08-18-2009, 02:03 PM

If I had excess, I would sell last years left overs to members for a good price.

dontman · 08-18-2009, 02:22 PM

This was my first year growing so I used my harvest for an APA. (I did have to add some bittering hops from my stash to complete the hop bill though.

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keelanfish · 08-18-2009, 02:32 PM

I've only got two nugget plants, so there won't be any excess. Actually at this rate I'll be doing good to harvest enough for a 10 gallon batch of my planned Rye Pale Wet Hopped Harvest Ale.

**uechikid** · 08-18-2009, 02:58 PM

It will be a couple of years before I'll need to worry about that. But if the time comes that I have too much to use myself, I have a couple of friends that brew and I'm sure they would be happy to take some off my hands.

**david_42** · 08-18-2009, 04:41 PM

I have nine plants, but only one of each variety. Unless there is a radial change in the summer weather here, I doubt I'll have to worry about excess hops. I've been having abnormally cold Springs followed by record hot Summers ever since I planted mine.

**Bobby_M** · 08-18-2009, 04:50 PM

I ended up with about half a pound of Chinook and a pound of Cascade. I'll easily burn through that within the year.

cactusgarrett · 08-18-2009, 05:16 PM

Vacuum seal & freeze!

**cuinrearview** · 08-18-2009, 07:57 PM

I'll have a good enough cascade harvest this year that I'll probably give some away to other local brewers and hopefully get them growing some other varieties that I don't have. I'd rather give the excess away and try their beers than ship 'em across the state and get a thumbs up over e-mail.

I'm advocating a "pay it forward" movement with our excess hops because only better beer and more hops can result.

**summersolstice** · 08-18-2009, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cuinrearview

I'll have a good enough cascade harvest this year that I'll probably give some away to other local brewers and hopefully get them growing some other varieties that I don't have. I'd rather give the excess away and try their beers than ship 'em across the state and get a thumbs up over e-mail.

I'm advocating a "pay it forward" movement with our excess hops because only better beer and more hops can result.

ok - I like this plan. I have about 2 pounds of whole Fuggle, Saaz, and Cascade left over from last year. That, along with a couple of pounds of Cascade from this year and about another pound and a half of various pellet hops, means I have plenty of hops - perhaps too much to use in the foreseeable future. I think I'll do something along these lines...