theveganbrewer
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Hope everyone will be kind enough to post recipes here to help develop some information about these new Belma hops for everyone. I plan to do a White IPA with it first.
Just ordered 5lbs of Belma. I'd hate to wind up loving it and not be able to get more (especially at 5.25/lb.)
I'm hoping they pelletize them,
djavatar said:According to their Facebook page they are going to pelletize them.
Beezer94 said:Opened up one of my two bags and it smelled great. Had a resiny-fruity smell, when I rubbed apart a few flowers got lots of strawberry & honeydew melon and a general sweet smell. Also after breaking into smaller bags, it was 19.1oz after removing some stems; so definitely a generous pound, especially for the price (basically worked out to be $11 a lb shipped to PA, so $0.58 an ounce).
smashed4 said:Here is an article from last year from a British brewer talking about Belma hops:
http://www.brewersguardian.com/brewing-features/british/1091.html
The brewer basically says he was not impressed with the hops.. He brewed only one test batch.. the few reviews of it are not that bad:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/oakham-baby-belma/162242/
All in all I will probably try it myself too and looking forward to everyone's results as well.
As I was packaging these up last night they reminded me of the super galena hop a bit but with more citrus and tropical - wonder if citra crossed with super galena?
As far as I know Puterbaugh Farms isn't licensed to grow Citra, so that's probably not accurate. They could, however, try and come up with their own combo that has characteristics similar to Citra.
HopsDirect had Citra this year. Unless they imported it from elsewhere, which seems unlikely.
In related news, the Citra disappeared in a matter of a day or 2.
They've had it in years past too, but they don't grow it there. They specifically label the hops that are grown on the farm, Citra is not one of them. It was/is owned by HopUnion I believe. Yakima Chief actually cultivated Citra, among other new hops, and HopUnion is the family of farms licensed to grow/sell them. HopsDirect simply buys/resells it.
Any ideas where else to get 2012 hops in 1lb quantities. I missed out on Citra and Centennial from Hops Direct, and am hoping to find elsewhere.
Labelpeelers.com has (1)lb increments, looks like they are still in 'pre-order' for 2012. My LHBS will order me 1 lb bags if I ask them to, check with your LHBS as well.
Thanks! In for 1lb of Citra and 1lb of Centennial.
Glad I found some...
Side note: I have trouble supporting my LHBS on anything other than yeast. It's funny...people say "support your LHBS", but when that involves paying on avg 25% or more over the online price, it just cant be justified, even after shipping is factored in. I recently had some grain bills filled out (two 6%ish beers -- hefe and a pumpkin), and it came out to 86 dollars. For all-grain. Needless to say, that was the 1st and last time I got a grain bill filled out at the LHBS.
I got my hopsdirect order yesterday - 1 lb of chinook and 4 lbs of Belma - I thought for 6 bucks a pound how can I lose. They smell nice, kind of a combination of citra and columbus - piney and fruity. I will be dry hopping a simple cascade pale ale with belma in about two weeks to see what they are like as an aroma hop.
missed out on the citra/centennial/amarillo through hops direct. Going to put on my big boy pants and plunk down the cash on hop pre order from label peelers.
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