2013 hops harvest

[BoomerHarley]

5.5 pounds wet cascade. Picked another 2 pounds about a month ago. Will get a few more pounds also.

 

[TangoHotel]

Could you Post you dry yields in oz with a running total? That way we can see how much was harvested total in 2013.

7.5 lbs is 120 oz. 1/4 of that is 30 oz. Safe to say your 30 oz is your dry yield?

We are at 113.65 dry oz (7.1 lbs) so far.

 

[brooksy]

Dried my Willamette harvest.....8.5oz. Just put some in a 100% North Carolina pale ale (wild barley that was growing near my house). Also ended up with 4oz of Chinook.

Uh, what? Wild barley? Why have I not heard of/thought of/researched/obsessed/used this idea before? Id like to know how it tastes!

 

[MobyMD]

Uh, what? Wild barley? Why have I not heard of/thought of/researched/obsessed/used this idea before? Id like to know how it tastes!

I don't want to get this thread off topic. Briefly.... found a field of wild barley on my morning run. Waited for it to dry, harvested, malted, dried/roasted, milled, and brewed. End result is a Willamette Pale Ale with 100% NC products. The yeast is my house strain I have been using for two years. It is conditioning currently. if there is more interest I will make my own thread.

 

[brooksy]

I don't want to get this thread off topic. Briefly.... found a field of wild barley on my morning run. Waited for it to dry, harvested, malted, dried/roasted, milled, and brewed. End result is a Willamette Pale Ale with 100% NC products. The yeast is my house strain I have been using for two years. It is conditioning currently. if there is more interest I will make my own thread.

Please do, I would like to read the whole story with your experience and tips.

 

[Looper]

Harvested half my crop yesterday (3rd year centennial and cascade). 2 plants yielded 14oz dry hops


113.65 + 14.0 = 127.65

Time to brew!!

 

[JollyMon]

Just vacuum sealed 12.2 ounces of dried hops from my second year plants.

10.7 ounces of Chinook and a very sad 1.5 ounces of Perle. At least that is 1.5 ounces more than I got out of the Perle year 1. I'm happy with the overall haul.

 

[pumpkinman2012]

1st year growing Hops, tons of burs that are rapidly filling out into cones, unfortunately, as a novice grower, I let a ton of bines grow resulting in smaller cones.
I'm excited as all hell, but next year will be much better!

 

[day_trippr]

30.5 dry ounces of Centennial cones vac-bagged and headed for the hop freezer.

So 139.85 coming in + 30.5 = 170.35 going forward...

Cheers!

 

[TangoHotel]

Ill be harvesting Willamette and more sunbeam tomorrow. Can't wait!

 

[jethro55]

2013 harvest from 1st year plants (dry weight):
Cascade: 6 oz
Chinook: 10 oz
Columbus: 4 oz
Nugget: 4 oz
Centennial: 1 oz
Very few cones from US Goldings, Magnum, Willamette

 

[Toga]

Harvested a few of the early cones from my first year cascades. So far 1oz dried. Many more to harvest when they are finally ready.

 

[Spartan1979]

I picked 15 ounces of Chinook a few weeks ago and made a Wet Hop Pale ale that afternoon.

Since then, my wife had someone come in and treat the yard for mosquitoes. Apparently he fogged all the vegetation in the yard pretty heavily so I think my harvesting is done. Mosquito Killer IPA anyone?

At least we have fewer mosquitoes.

 

[2BeerSpeer]

14 oz Brewers Gold (left) and 15 oz Cascade (right) first harvest from these plants. I have 6 other varieties to harvest later this week but they are much less in quantities.

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

14 oz Brewers Gold (left) and 15 oz Cascade (right) first harvest from these plants. I have 6 other varieties to harvest later this week but they are much less in quantities.

Get some fans in there moving air!

 

[2BeerSpeer]

I do, it had to be moved to take the photo.

 

[TangoHotel]

At 240.35

8 oz Sunbeam and .2 oz Willamette

Up to 248.55 oz. So far.

 

[zrule]

76.4 oz of cascade and 24.1 oz of centennial (all dried)= 349.05

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

All single first year plants

2# 4oz Wet off Cascade
14 oz Wet off Newport
12 oz Wet off Columbus

So from my rough math of 25-30% of the original weight i should be at just over a pound of dry hops. Not bad for a first year haul!
Glad the lowest AA% hop(Cascade) is the one that took off, having lower amounts of Columbus & Newport isnt a big deal when they are 10-15% AA.

Took us about 2 hours to pick, most of the time spent on the Cascade. There were some smaller flowers on the cascade we could have possibly let go longer, but its starting to rain here more and more and busy weekends a head so decided to just harvest them all. The Newports dont look at all like the other two, they are very spikey and "plump" rather than the cascade and columbus which were more tight cones, the newports were fairly open from the day they flowered.

And yes there's a giant swath of my grass cut out into a big mud pit, a yet to be finished stone pathway project. Digging out that much dirt has proven to take much longer than anticipated!

Newports on the ground

Cascades on the ground

Total Haul

 

[2BeerSpeer]

Roughly 1# wet of Chinook, Columbus, Magnum, Mt Hood, and Nugget after the Brewers Gold and Cascade were put away. My Centennial didn't have a single cone :/

 

[2BeerSpeer]

the Mt Hood will just go in a pint of IPA....

 

[mthompson]

I put 19.2 oz. of Centennials in the freezer last night. (2nd year plants and lowest yielding variety this year)

Still have 2nd year cascades and 4th year wild to go....

 

[TangoHotel]

Running totals?

 

[mthompson]

Oh sorry... That's my first round this year.

19.2 oz total (plus a couple cones here and there that ripened fast and I picked to put in my beers)

 

[TangoHotel]

So total of 400.25 oz.

 

[mthompson]

So total of 400.25 oz.

Man, I suck at this. Didn't realize it was that kinda thread.... Will update as I go.

 

[guldalian]

Cascade 2.8 oz
Centennial .4 oz
Chinook .8 oz

These are dry weights. Ill probably get another oz between my nuggets and what's left on the other plants. Gonna use most of them for a Christmas India brown ale.

 

[day_trippr]

Man, I suck at this. Didn't realize it was that kinda thread.... Will update as I go.

Pretty clear you're not alone - most people still haven't gotten it yet...

Cheers!

 

[TangoHotel]

Btw 404.25 oz.

 

[two_one_seven]

52 oz of Cascade. Great year for them here in Illinois. Willamette not so much.