Working at Broken Leg Brewery

[Yooper]

Today was a day for harvesting cascade hops.

Here is Bob, the Procurement Specialist and Head Vintner:


Here are me (Brewmaster) and Quinn (Microbrewer) and Toby (Janitorial Services/Spill Clean Up):


More of the harvest:


After a hard day of work, there was time to goof around:


And more of the harvest:

 

[jpc]

I'm Disappointed.

I expected the shorts and hair-dye head gear outfit.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

I gotta harvest mine soon, they're starting to turn brown... Looks like you had a good year.

 

[JetSmooth]

That's some serious hoppage!

BTW, the hair looks great.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

...
BTW, the hair looks great.

I never looked up that high...















What? I was looking at the hops...

 

[FishinDave07]

those are some SERIOUS hops. cute grandson btw.

 

[paulthenurse]

Looks like you got just about enough for an IIPA.

PTN

 

[azscoob]

Impressive cones you have there Yooper! Eventually I will get around to planting hops up at the cabin, until then I guess I will just keep buying em in bulk.

 

[Yooper]

Thanks for the kind words! They smelled so good! And this year is a strange one- the hops were ready weeks before the same plant last year! Last year, we harvested in mid September.

I didn't even touch my hallertauer hops. They should be harvested, too, but I just don't use them. I guess I could harvest them and then see if someone wants to swap them for a different variety, but it's way too much work! I have far more hallertauer hops than cascades.

I have a first year chinook that produced about an ounce (once dried)- it really looks great. It's growing up the back of the greenhouse.

 

[paulthenurse]

I'll take those Hallertauer off your hands. That's just the kind of guy I am.

PTN

 

[Yooper]

Looks like you got just about enough for an IIPA.

PTN

Well, they're all dried and weighed, vacuumed sealed, and in the freezer. I got 33.25 ounces off of that plant this year! I'm brewing on Thursday this week, and will use up the 2009 cascades in an IPA.

We got about an ounce (still drying) off of the first year chinook. And I didn't touch the hallertauer, since I still have some in the freezer from last year.

 

[Marsdude]

Nice pictures. Made me want to be there.

Great Surly Tshirt! Haven't had a Surly since I visited my daughter up in Minneapolis. Great beer!

 

[Yooper]

Nice pictures. Made me want to be there.

Great Surly Tshirt! Haven't had a Surly since I visited my daughter up in Minneapolis. Great beer!

I love Surly- it's my new favorite beer. Too bad it's only available in MN- that's way too far for me to go to grab a case of beer. I especially love Furious- probably my favorite IPA.

 

[MrWiggles]

I'll take those Hallertauer off your hands. That's just the kind of guy I am.

PTN

second that. if I didn't live so far away I'd offer to harvest em for you..for a share that is.

 

[passedpawn]

Wow, that is very cool. I'm getting me some rhizomes this spring! Very very cool.

 

[Memorex88]

Well, they're all dried and weighed, vacuumed sealed, and in the freezer. I got 33.25 ounces off of that plant this year! I'm brewing on Thursday this week, and will use up the 2009 cascades in an IPA.

33.25oz! It's looks like a good year for hops in general. How old is that vine if you don't mine my curiosity?

Very nice family BTW.

 

[Yooper]

33.25oz! It's looks like a good year for hops in general. How old is that vine if you don't mine my curiosity?

Very nice family BTW.

Thanks! My grandson is a real cutie.

I think that cascades plant is about 4 years old now.

I "helped" lschiavo harvest his hops today. I work for beer and pizza, so I'm cheap labor. His were overripe, and we didn't get as much as he hoped.

I never did harvest my hallertauer, so I told lschiavo to hack down some bines and take what he wanted. He only took a small amount, and he's drying them now.

 

[yellow70cooper]

I would have to agree that Surly Furious is my Top IPA as well. My new Surly shirts arrived last week and they will be on display at the Great Japanese Beer Festival in Yokohama Japan in 2 weeks.....

 

[Mermaid]

cute pics!! I'm entirely jealous of your hop garden

(and I'll also raise my hand for the Hallertauer heh.)

 

[bendavanza]

Great harvest. Consider me jealous.
My 2nd year hops were miserable this year in the TX heat. I will have to relocate them, maybe for morning light rather than afternoon. I hope the root system is still ok.