damdaman
Well-Known Member
I picked a cone off the top of my 2nd year centennial plant (no harvest first year) today for the first time.
Of course I expected the smell to be much stronger/better fresh off the vine, but holy cow! It was delicious!
I don't think they're quite ripe yet, but they're close, and the smell was extremely lemon-y; far more than I expect from centennial. I'm sure individual plants vary with any number of factors, but I'm wondering if that intense lemon smell/flavor will show up in my beers, or if the drying/freezing process will make them eventually smell more like store-bought dried hops?
The cones look to be of average size (not as big as the chinook cones I've seen pictures and videos of on this forum), and there was a lot of visible yellow lupulin inside. I think I'll check them again in a week or so and see how it's changed.
Of course I expected the smell to be much stronger/better fresh off the vine, but holy cow! It was delicious!
I don't think they're quite ripe yet, but they're close, and the smell was extremely lemon-y; far more than I expect from centennial. I'm sure individual plants vary with any number of factors, but I'm wondering if that intense lemon smell/flavor will show up in my beers, or if the drying/freezing process will make them eventually smell more like store-bought dried hops?
The cones look to be of average size (not as big as the chinook cones I've seen pictures and videos of on this forum), and there was a lot of visible yellow lupulin inside. I think I'll check them again in a week or so and see how it's changed.
