Whats up with this Citra Shortage?

Amarillo is one of my favorite hops period. I like it more than Citra, but do like late additions.

It goes fast and will until they allow more people to grow them, but they'll be found throughout the year, so don't worry too much.

My LHBS still has citra pellet and whole leaf from last year.. They never ran out of anything I don't think, might have gotten low on Citra, and got it from someone other than Hop Union, but that was about it.

Haha, sorry about the 5 dollar confusion, it's just Belma that's 5. Others are going to be between 12-18 I believe. I have 3 pounds of citra already from the 2012 crop, #1leaf and #2 pellet from labelpeelers, yet I find it hard to resist buying even more. I think I'll just do amarillo and chinook

I got two lbs and black Friday is coming up...

Hrmm.. BF deals?


I'll be sure to buy.. But I'll be sure to get another freezer for hops on BF too!!

keep an eye out on farmhouse, he had lbs to citra last year, leaf for 18, pellets for 32.

theBFG said:

Sweeeet I just bought a pound of citra and amarillo from label peelers. Having never tried amarillo, and loving citra, this is good to read!

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Pickledout686 said:

I too am a big fan of Citra and Amarillo, amazing combo for IPA's. My LHBS said that its due to all the major breweries using up all the Citra so us homebrewers are going to have to suffer without it

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Gotta chime in... citra by itself is good but citra in combination with Amarillo is amazing!!

divrguy said:

Gotta chime in... citra by itself is good but citra in combination with Amarillo is amazing!!

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Hops Direct Amarillo goes on sale today, too.

I've got my first Nelson/Citra beers still in the carboys and I can't imagine anything being better than that!

divrguy said:

Gotta chime in... citra by itself is good but citra in combination with Amarillo is amazing!!

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Can't wait until they come in! My # of Belma leaf came in last night, so I'm thinking a combination of all three won't hurt. Pretty excited to try amarillo too now that I have read so many good things about it!

You all seem to use a lot of pellets. I've preferred leaf. I love hop bursting. Will I be able to notice any difference in flavor and aroma using pellets?

theveganbrewer said:

Haha, sorry about the 5 dollar confusion, it's just Belma that's 5. Others are going to be between 12-18 I believe. I have 3 pounds of citra already from the 2012 crop, #1leaf and #2 pellet from labelpeelers, yet I find it hard to resist buying even more. I think I'll just do amarillo and chinook

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Haha join the club. I think we may need a support group. I've ordered atleast 7lbs of hops from this year's crop so far. Just ordered 1lb Centennial, Columbus, and Hallertau from Hops Direct (pellets). Told myself I gotta stop this. No more hops til the new year!

My haul so far for 2012 crop

Whole Leaf:
1.5 lbs Cascade
.5 lbs Centennial
1 lb 10oz Amarillo
12 oz Simcoe
1 lb Citra


Pellet:
10oz Magnum
8 oz Warrior
1lb Centennial
1lb Columbus
1lb Hallertau

nickmv said:

Haha join the club. I think we may need a support group. I've ordered atleast 7lbs of hops from this year's crop so far. Just ordered 1lb Centennial, Columbus, and Hallertau from Hops Direct (pellets). Told myself I gotta stop this. No more hops til the new year!

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Ya, I'll have around 15-17lbs of hops in the freezer after this harvest.

Wayne1 said:

Lablepeelers Citra hop pellets

"Citra Pellet Hops 1 lb are in high demand and always sell out. Product at this point can not keep up with demand and looks as if citra hops will be in short supplies for some years to come."

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labelpeelers is my lhbs. Their the ones that got me up and running, check out their website for citra. I was there last weekend and they had lots left!

WiseEyes said:

labelpeelers is my lhbs. Their the ones that got me up and running, check out their website for citra. I was there last weekend and they had lots left!

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Sure would be nice if they'd ship out their damn whole leaf. They told me on Monday that it'd be another 2 weeks. WTF? Didn't really get that, as the harvest has long been done. They said they were waiting on their distributor. Aren't they located just down the way from it?

I'm wishing they would ship out their pre-orders also.. been waiting patiently on 2lbs of Citra and 1lb of Amarillo.

Starting to wish i ordered more Amarillo though.

Soup4you2 said:

I'm wishing they would ship out their pre-orders also.. been waiting patiently on 2lbs of Citra and 1lb of Amarillo.

Starting to wish i ordered more Amarillo though.

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Tonight on hopsdirect and farmhouse will have more next week by Thursday.

Soup4you2 said:

I'm wishing they would ship out their pre-orders also.. been waiting patiently on 2lbs of Citra and 1lb of Amarillo.

Starting to wish i ordered more Amarillo though.

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Haha that happens on every pre-order. You order only waht you can afford/want, then 2 wks later, you can afford more and want more. Then it's too late.

Krovitz said:

Tonight on hopsdirect and farmhouse will have more next week by Thursday.

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Yup, been constantly clicking refresh on hopsdirect :fro:

Last Friday HD didnt add cascade and centennial until 4:45 pst. That being said, im refreshing my browser every 30 minutes!

I'm kinda surprised we haven't crashed their website yet!

Hopsdirect always seems to limit you to one pound unless it is a more common hop like cascade. The Labelpeeler preorder didn't do that. Having said that, I am waiting impatiently for my preorder and will compete with all of you to be customer #1 to purchase citra at hopsdirect tonight. I really need to get some citra, so if you guys would wait for like 15 minutes before placing your orders I'd appreciate it.

Soup4you2 said:

Yup, been constantly clicking refresh on hopsdirect :fro:

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Glad I'm not the only one refreshing every 2 minutes...
Just go on sale all ready!

Someone tell me I don't need more than 3 pounds of citra this year...please.

dbrewski said:

I really need to get some citra, so if you guys would wait for like 15 minutes before placing your orders I'd appreciate it.

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ME TOO! I've got none! If you got 3lbs in your fridge ease off !!! hahaha

I need amarillo more. I hope its not a 1lb limit. Didnt they harvest this in record numbers this year?

I live 30 minutes from the farm so my internet can get there faster, I'm going to get them all before you guys do.

I'm just hoping they will not be doing a 1lb limit. But i think they will be, which means i need to do constant refreshing on farmhouse next week also.

igotsand said:

Glad I'm not the only one refreshing every 2 minutes...
Just go on sale all ready!

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same here. I wonder how many people are doing this. They are going to get lit up

theveganbrewer said:

I live 30 minutes from the farm so my internet can get there faster, I'm going to get them all before you guys do.

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Unfortunately, I've already hacked your computer to reroute all traffic through Indonesia. Good luck!

theveganbrewer said:

I live 30 minutes from the farm so my internet can get there faster, I'm going to get them all before you guys do.

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Will they let you come pick them up if you ask them?

Hops Direct FB page says it will be a 1lb per person limit for Amarillo and Citra. No surprise.

jww9618 said:

Hops Direct FB page says it will be a 1lb per person limit for Amarillo and Citra. No surprise.

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Finally, being married pays off. 2 pounds for us.

igotsand said:

Glad I'm not the only one refreshing every 2 minutes...
Just go on sale all ready!

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I'm on linux and I wrote a command line script that goes out, fetches the page, and searches for lines containing 2012 hops only. Does all the work for me!

dbrewski said:

I'm on linux and I wrote a command line script that goes out, fetches the page, and searches for lines containing 2012 hops only. Does all the work for me!

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Just search for the word: Citra

jww9618 said:

Hops Direct FB page says it will be a 1lb per person limit for Amarillo and Citra. No surprise.

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F5........F5..........F5.

Damnit....cmon!

dbrewski said:

I'm on linux and I wrote a command line script that goes out, fetches the page, and searches for lines containing 2012 hops only. Does all the work for me!

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I need a new linux box.. wget + md5 on various pages and check for hash differences ftw!

Soup4you2 said:

I need a new linux box.. wget + md5 on various pages and check for hash differences ftw!

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As webmaster, I'd sit there and change the copyright spacing to drive you nuts with alerts.

Man, they're really dragging this one to the deadline.

Soup4you2 said:

I need a new linux box.. wget + md5 on various pages and check for hash differences ftw!

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wget and grep does just fine, plus I get a listing of the hops.

Then, when it finds them it purchases them and ships them to me.

Are these going to be pellets or whole cones?

dbrewski said:

wget and grep does just fine, plus I get a listing of the hops.

Then, when it finds them it purchases them and ships them to me.

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I wish I knew what all that meant....
Off work now and just clicking refresh now on my computer....click click...
Igotsand