I recently attended my local homebrew club's monthly meeting (The Oregon Brew Crew) and we were given some cool free stuff.
Full Sail Brewing donated over 300 lbs of hops and over 400 lbs of malt to the club to give away to members for free. There was a huge variety of everything to choose from. The hops were still sealed and in a frozen room when they gave them to us. The catch...the hops were from the 2003 crop.
I picked up around 20-25 lbs of hops myself including
Centennial (whole leaf)
Cascade (whole leaf)
East Kent Golding (pellet)
Saaz (pellet)
Amarillo (pellet)
I actually wrote down the AA of all the hops but since the club meeting had over 10 kegs I seemed to have lost that vital piece of information. Due to the age of the hops the AA would have been a guess anyway.
Anyone have any advice? Go off the very low end of the AA for that type of hop?
Also I had to take them down to Salem since my buddy has an extra freezer and leave them there. If anyone in Salem would like some for free hit me up (farmbrewernw, I know you live in Salem). I repackaged all the hops and used the foodsaver to vacuum seal them.
Full Sail Brewing donated over 300 lbs of hops and over 400 lbs of malt to the club to give away to members for free. There was a huge variety of everything to choose from. The hops were still sealed and in a frozen room when they gave them to us. The catch...the hops were from the 2003 crop.
I picked up around 20-25 lbs of hops myself including
Centennial (whole leaf)
Cascade (whole leaf)
East Kent Golding (pellet)
Saaz (pellet)
Amarillo (pellet)
I actually wrote down the AA of all the hops but since the club meeting had over 10 kegs I seemed to have lost that vital piece of information. Due to the age of the hops the AA would have been a guess anyway.
Anyone have any advice? Go off the very low end of the AA for that type of hop?
Also I had to take them down to Salem since my buddy has an extra freezer and leave them there. If anyone in Salem would like some for free hit me up (farmbrewernw, I know you live in Salem). I repackaged all the hops and used the foodsaver to vacuum seal them.