Recent content by Mike_Diesel

Awesome thread! I'm going to give this method a shot soon with the two batches I just bottled.

What is your recommendation, sir? This is my first time dry hopping...

Hey all, just wanted to give everyone a little update... Last night I pulled my hops out of the freezer and racked my beer to the secondary. It was tastes and smells amazing from all of the fresh hops I added to the boil. Now we wait two weeks for the dry hopping to complete!

Alright, they're sealed and in the freezer! Another quick question though...once I want to use them in the secondary for dry hopping, do I thaw them out? I assume using them frozen won't be ideal.

Hello all, I just vacuum sealed some homegrown dried out hops I had on hand. My question is, if I'm going to use these for dry hopping in a secondary within the next 7-10 days, should I even bother freezing them since they're sealed? I'm not really experienced with fresh hops! But I've also...

So how should I freeze these bad boys? About 3oz of them I'm going to freeze...and I don't have a food vacuum/saver. Do I still need to freeze them if I'm going to use them in a few weeks?

Ok so if I have about 7oz at about 80% of their weight (which I would assume they are)...and I use half tomorrow to brew with...what should I do with the other half if I want to dry hop in 3-4 weeks? My assumption was freeze them. If not, how else would you recommend storing them until the dry...

Well how dry is dry enough? I don't know that I'd consider them "wet" still but I don't really know. Some are a little damper. But most of them are semi-flaky...some are kinda crunchy.

Yeah I was just thinking that. Pretty sure that's the route I'm gonna go. I cut off all of the vines and leaves... there's at least 6-7oz of cones. Most of them are pretty dry so I think I should be OK freezing them at this point.

So if they were picked about 3 days ago, how do I know if they're fully dried or not? They feel dry to the touch but not too dry I guess. If its after 48 hours, is it too late to brew with them? The bag I have is pretty deep and full of cones at the bottom so that's why I was wondering about...

OK so, I have probably at least 10oz of these fresh hops. From what I understand, they were literally just picked about 3 days ago. Should I maybe use some in the next few days to brew and then freeze the rest? How would I go about drying them out? Fresh hops are new to me so I...

Hi all, A coworker of mine just handed over some homegrown hops to me from his uncle. However, his uncle couldn't remember what type of hops he grew this time around (he grows a lot). Sounds like he was growing cascade or centennial. I was wondering if you guys might be able to help me...