I'd do an ounce since you have 0 clue about what variety it is. Who knows, might be the best beer you ever make!
Why don't you make a few hop teas first in plain water with various amounts of hop additions to get a better idea of the bitterness and the flavour of the hop.
Dryhopping with fresh cones is a nogo imo due to the risk of infection.
I'll be doing a Northern Brewer this weekend
at least half of the hops to be pretty ripe (and then I'll go back in two weeks or so to pick of the rest).
Went and got some more hops off of “the beast” yesterday. I’d like to dry hop with these but not risk an infection. Should I....
A. Make a hop tea and add that to secondary
B. Boil the hops and add that water plus hops to secondary
C. Just add the hops directly to secondary in a muslin bag / loose
D. Something else I’m not thinking of at the moment
Please advise! Thank you everyone for your support
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Apparently you missed the post about me finally making a batch lolI posted in this thread 9 yrs ago. I must say, the owners of this plant and those posting here on their behalf are not very ambitious people. I've made approx 1000 batches of beer since then. Git yer **** together and make some beer. My god.
You are correct, neither of us have been on here in a long time. Bkelley was supposed to be helping me work with this plant in exchange for the hops at harvest time to brew some beer, but life occurred for both of us...Last year, we did not harvest the plant at all, so I still have no idea what type it is or how it tastes. My father and I decided this year to make a makeshift trellis and see what happened, neither of us really know much about hops and although I have made wine, I have never tried my hand at beer. We set two 20' pipes with a pipe spanning the top and ran ropes up one side, over the top and down the other every foot or so. Well, we started by taking one bine to each rope and just loosely wrapping them once around, they seemed to be fragile at that stage. Within two days, the plant decided that it would send two or three up each rope just for the hell of it. By the end of the week, it was obvious that next year's trellis will need to be much, much bigger...By the end of week two, most of the bines had reached the twenty or so foot top, found no where else to go, and decided to start down the other side and then back out into the yard again. It is now a much larger, more tangled beast than ever, but seems to be quite happy about it! We still have the problem of the blackberries/raspberries and tearthumb occupying the base of The Beast, but the upper reaches of it are happy for now. We planned to cut the ropes and bines down at harvest time, thus making harvest easier and cutting back The Beast at the same time, but now that it has gone crazy that might not work at all. Not ready to even think about that things roots yet, so no freebie rhizomes yet...I don't even know the first thing about cutting them yet, and can't get to the base of the thing to get at them. Trying to get a cousin on dad's side to help harvest and make some beer, but he's busy too. My time is sucked up by my business and taking care of a husband who was hit by a drunk driver in May, and Dad is busy on the farm with other things, so I'll try to keep everyone updated more as The Beast progresses. Sorry for the delay, life just can't seem to slow down to smell the hops...
I posted in this thread 9 yrs ago. I must say, the owners of this plant and those posting here on their behalf are not very ambitious people. I've made approx 1000 batches of beer since then. Git yer **** together and make some beer. My god.
I think they stay in a hedge like form if they can't climb anything.I had a dream of a huge hop tree growing like a tree (dream like unrealistic )
I wonder what they look like after many years growing in a forest setting?
I suppose from what I have read they die to the ground ?
so unless there is a type of species that doesn't they would like become like tree's on same vine
Wish I knew more I love plants, and know a lot but decided unless I am going to grow them do not want to study them as much ( but still do)
I looked at botany web sites but couldn't figure out my question
beginner on a hop vine
So if you had vine grow up a tree harvesting the hops ,
and leaving the vine (liana) it would not regrow from old growth
making a massive decorative hop vine
Maybe my dream meant abundance or something
I think the post was offered in jest. Sometimes it's hard to read inflection into written text.What A jack Ass thing to say.
Should be greatful they posted in the first place.
ya thinkI think the post was offered in jest. Sometimes it's hard to read inflection into written text.
Should be greatful they posted in the first place.
How did this batch turn out
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