2011 Hop Garden Picture Thread

[Scooby_Brew]

This year I want to use more hops for wet hopping. So rather then harvest it all in one day, I will be picking them a few ounces at a time and using them fresh off the vine on a brew day for aroma hopping and dry hopping. Wet hopped beers are totally fantastic, it is like a different demention of hops, I highly recommend it. My plan for tomorrow is to use some of them for wet hopping a Rye IPA straight from the vine into a keg

 

[cyclogenesis]

My hops are heavy with lupin!!!

Enjoy some Macro shots.. amazing stuff.. Chinook ready to go.. Cascade some time behind..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60372300@N03/sets/72157627469196905/

 

[bernerbrau]

Had one vine die on me. The other looks like it may be joining its brother soon

 

[Kleggo]

My first year Cascades. A very nice and unexpected collection of cones. The Goldings didn't produce cones and the Nugget never got out of the ground.

 

[ThreeDogsNE]

Wet hopped beers are totally fantastic, it is like a different demention of hops, I highly recommend it.

My hops growing and brewing look a bit demented too, I fear!

 

[Hypnolobster]

For labor day, we hopped!

 

[Hop Hack]

Great video Hypno, but I was expecting music more on the lines of,
"Bow Chicka Bow Wow."
I just pick my last 1/2 ounce or so of Cascades this years. Had a total of about 29 ounces on my two 4 year old plants.
Ed

 

[NorthSide]

awesome video! the song actually made me feel sadder that those hops aren't in my hands...

 

[jfrank85]

I honestly salivated like Pavlov's dog, serious hop porn you've got there.

 

[Mthomp7]

Second year cascade harvest still have to pull the northern brew tomorrow.

 

[Hypnolobster]

Great video Hypno, but I was expecting music more on the lines of,
"Bow Chicka Bow Wow."
I just pick my last 1/2 ounce or so of Cascades this years. Had a total of about 29 ounces on my two 4 year old plants.
Ed

I really, really considered this. We were joking about it while filling the buckets.


Thanks for the compliments guys

 

[jfrank85]

Second year cascade harvest still have to pull the northern brew tomorrow.

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Its like a bed of hops!

 

[Hypnolobster]

Ah why not. One more.

 

[Mustangj]

Picked almost 4lbs.

Brewed a wet IPA last week.

 

[jfrank85]

Those are nice! The hop plants look good too

 

[cfonnes]

Brewed a wet IPA last week.

I brewed my first wet hop brew 10 days ago. The 5 minute addition did not seem to give much aroma. I wonder if I should have ripped those hops in half to get more out of them.

 

[Mustangj]

I wonder if I should have ripped those hops in half to get more out of them.

Might have to try that next year!

 

[unionrdr]

I like the hop bed JF. Makes my eyes red just lookin at it. Def some healthy bines there,MJ. Looks like quite a load!:cross:

 

[gbx]

Ah why not. One more.

Dexter takes up homebrewing this season? Awesome!

 

[jfrank85]

Holy crap! I thought the same thing when I saw that pic!

 

[Kylito87]

First year harvest. I am not sure If I did it too soon . From what I read the cones were papery and sprung back when squeezed. Also they were full of lupulin. I plan on putting the whole batch into a American IPA.

 

[gbx]

The last of the first year hops have been picked and I got a decent harvest. I had five plants grown on a south facing balcony. Here's how they ended up doing:

Nugget in 100L of potting soil: 12oz wet

Willamette in 100L of potting soil: .55oz when dried.
Cascade in 100L of potting soil: 20oz wet

Centennial in 50L of used potting soil: approximately 30 weak little cones that I didn't bother picking
Mt. Hood in 40L of used potting soil: 4 weak little cones

I used the willamettes and 6oz of wet nuggets in the brown ale recipe from How to Brew. I tried a gravity sample tonight (one week in primary) and it is spicy! I wanted to brew something other than an IPA...The malt is awesome but the hopping is a little weird...I can't tell if it will be drinkable yet



I put the wet cascades in the freezer for next weekend when I'll brew an IPA. I might throw in some of the left over nuggets at bittering.

So yay for homegrown hops! If you have even a tiny southfacing outdoor space, get a big rubbermaid container, some fresh soil and go for it. Nobody I talked to thought I was going to grow anything and I got enough for 2 batches my first year.

 

[lemy]

I was thinking some of you may be interested in the hopcam: www.jdr.org/hopcam.htm

 

[el_horno]

I have wood siding on my house, but was considering running the bines up to the overhang of my roof, do you think the moisture from the bines would rot out the wood siding? Should I just invest in building a structure over my beds for them to climb up?

 

[brewmcq]

Your siding should be fine.

 

[el_horno]

Cool, thanks! Much easier and cheaper!

 

[Cpanco]

One of my Hops trellis/ girlfriends veggie garden.. planter boxes... Cascade in this one just starting to poke thru the mounds... I will be building 3 more for the Golding, Tettnanger and Centennial amongst other things that the girlfriend wants to grow..

First post..

Cheers!!

 

[gbx]

nice! assuming you don't have a time machine, post in the 2013 photo thread

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f92/2013-hop-garden-photo-thread-398999/

 

[Cyclman]

Just picked my hops, drying 2 lbs. on my new contraption. I think I picked them late, they are pretty dried out on the bines.

 

[NuclearRich]

you picked them yesterday, 2 years ago?

(this is the 2011 thread you revived, see post immediately prior)