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Virtually all of my kegs have that, I find that it's easier to identify... like ridges on a coin for blind people. Box end of a wrench fits- buy'em up!

All hops are usable, the question becomes if you want to. Those are awfully brown and likely past their prime (or were starved for water). Do a rub test between you hands and see if they smell like something you would like in your beer. I'm betting that they are pretty cheesy

These are a few photos I dug up from several years back. These 1 oz plugs were very manageable.

Plugs predate pellets, they were a way of storing hops that allowed for additions into the cask through the bung hole. So they are kind of archaic, but homebrewers tend to be a little steam punk cavemanish... The major difference is that pellets are ground and plugs are not (also pellets are...

@Charlie - it would form a more uniform size package, and wouldn't require repeatedly punching whole cones down into a vacuum bag. I'm trying to remember if I ever posted my other plugger on here @Dan - thanks for the input, I'll look into details for sure

Genetic testing only costs a few grand I hear. But photos and sensory analysis will go a little ways

The cones will actually regain the original shape once rehydrated in wort, it's kinda crazy

That's a clever Idea and a little more fail-safe than slowly "crashing." Wish the mobile app allowed for likes

3 lbs of centennial, 9 lbs 1.2oz of cascade, and 8 lbs of chinook. 544.7 + 48 + 145.2 + 128 = 865.9

@Brian - thank you yet again, I'll look into those options as well. About the pictures in the beginning of the thread, it looks like FB might have altered the URLs of the photos and I have no way of relinking them because HBT doesn't let me edit posts from that far back. I will work to...

Thank you brian. And for those wondering, I finished packaging today, we did mostly all QPs. The totals are: 12 packs of centennial- 3 lbs 35 packs cascade plus 2 odd packs- 9 lbs 1.2 oz 32 packs chinook - 8 lbs Now I need lab analysis. Gorst Valley has gotten back to me saying that they can...

Thank you for the heads up. Lab analysis will let me know the exact percentage, my cave man method no doubt has a percentage error. A better (small) scale is on the list of things to aquire. Local laws are definitely something that I will be looking into for 2016 as that crop I legitimately...

The small AC unit did a great job removing humidity from my garage and I was able to get them down to 15% moisture. My sister in law and I spent 3 hours packing QPs of Cascade last night. We made 24.5 packages, or 6.125 lbs dry. I have a half day at work today, so I'll be doing the chinook...

Harvested cascade, chinook, and centennial last weekend. Chinook was definitely spot on, cascade close, questioning centennials. (Oshkosh, WI)

I notice this about mine each year too, tea and brussel sprouts aromas as they dry. But, for what it's worth, these seem to go away as I reach dry-dry. I'm still not sure if it's a moisture thing or an oxidation thing, but it seems less perceptible around 10% moisture. The problem I have each...

The mobile app is screwing with me, trying to upload those pictures here

So, frustration ensues. I've been drying the centennial and cascade for 4 days now and the chinook for 3, I am still at 30% moisture across the board. I identified the problem immediately last night when there was no longer stratification through the oast stacks: humidity. The temps have been...

@Charlie there is some truth to that, 16 of us put in about 68 man hours into harvesting 62 plants. Another writeup here: http://oshkoshbeer.blogspot.com/2015/09/hop-harvest-at-pfeister-pfarms.html?spref=fb&m=1

Running the oast outside, I didn't think about the bugs it would suck up. Luckily, last night I had empty trays on top which caught the critters. So I added some scrap screen to prevent that tonight. I also had to build 8 more trays... ugh. Besides MORE work, the 2x4s available for purchase...

The oast was working great. Obviously the humidity goes up as the air is pushed down through the stack, so the tray closest to the fan dries quickest. I measured every tray, the ones at the top had lost 40% weight, the ones near the bottom around 22%, so I rotated those this evening.