2015 Hop garden photo thread

1fast636 · Aug 13, 2015

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1lb off cent and 1lb of chinook not complaining for 2nd yr and this crazy weather we had sand not to mention the attack of bugs this year too

olotti · Aug 13, 2015

1fast636 said:
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1lb off cent and 1lb of chinook not complaining for 2nd yr and this crazy weather we had sand not to mention the attack of bugs this year too

So out of 1lb what do you expect in dry weight. 3-5oz maybe. Just curious.

Kharnynb · Aug 14, 2015

My first year northern brewer(german) are growing lovely with sideshoots all over, but no burrs at all...maybe later, maybe next year.

The unknown hops at the mother in law are making nice cones that will probally get me a lb or so of hops.

Still no clue what they are though....

BRONCOBREW · Aug 14, 2015

olotti said:
So out of 1lb what do you expect in dry weight. 3-5oz maybe. Just curious.

That is about right. It can vary by moisture content. Rule of thum: Divide by 4, so an average lb will give you 4 ounces of dry.

day_trippr · Aug 14, 2015

Divide by 5 and you'll get a more appropriate answer.
Commercial hops (aside from our hydro-farming friends product) are usually dried below 20% of wet weight...

Cheers!

day_trippr · Aug 14, 2015

Been sweatin' a bit because I have to spend next week down in Austin and the Chinook and Cascade are getting fat.

But today being Friday I believe I have at least a week before either strain is going to need picking, and maybe two weeks.

Chinook...

Cascade...

Fingers slightly crossed...

Cheers!

ong · Aug 14, 2015

My hops trellis came crashing down this week! You can see in the first picture that it was kind of straining the shed where it's attached. I guess the weight became too much and the whole thing came down (second pic). Third pic is where I got it propped back up, sort of doubled over, but hopefully ok until I can harvest. Need a much better system next year. BTW, these are third or fourth year hops, can't remember off-hand.

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1fast636 · Aug 17, 2015

olotti said:
So out of 1lb what do you expect in dry weight. 3-5oz maybe. Just curious.

Yea the divid by 4 for dry is what mine came out too pretty much 1/4oz over the math lol, I split my lb and have a half lb still wet vacuumed sealed of each for fresh hop brew in two weeks

My dry weight for 1/2lb was 2.25oz both chinook and cent

Jaboska89 · Aug 18, 2015

Can anyone tell me what's going on with my hops? I have two Willamette and two nugget. I was able to harvest the nugget hops no problem, the Willamette (pictured) have started turning brown. They were doing well all season, the hops were larger than the nugget. The Japanese Beatles got to the leaves, but I'm wondering if I waited too long to harvest and this hot spell has got to them. This is their second year. Soil isn't that great but the hops went from nice green to brownish gold all over in about a week. Not every spotty, most of them are just golden brown.

Darth_Beer · Aug 27, 2015

First year grower, and some first year hops and needing help to know if these are ready.. Willamette, Cascade, and Fuggle.

MrNic · Aug 27, 2015

2nd year Columbus. Got about 4 pounds wet.
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2nd year Centennial. Got about 10oz wet.
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MrNic · Aug 27, 2015

So. Many. Hops.

sablesurfer · Aug 28, 2015

I've been avoiding this thread because I have been bad to my hops this year. Everything survived the winter in pots buried under leaves. They were all strung and treated nicely to get them to start...and then I basically ignored them most of the year. If there were multiple, hot, dry days in a row then I would water, but really very little care. It was a survive if you can kinda year in my yard.

So, here are pics of what they look like, in the Midwest with our weirdly cold year and left mostly to their own devices. No, to just a couple, hops on most of them. But my 'unknown' hop plant seems much better than others and hops smell pretty good. The chinook hop smelled amazing as did the centennial hop I found.

(Poor willamette really doesn't like it much here, not ded but definitely not happy.)

brewshki · Aug 28, 2015

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The first three are my cascades and the last two are my willamettes. The middle one is an awful creature that should be banished to hell. Both are first years planted in April in little 3 gallon pots in Southern California. I didn't expect to get any hops and am very happy the cascade threw some out. There aren't that many but it is still fun.

The10mmKid · Aug 29, 2015

Centennials to be picked this W/E

Cuttings from earlier this Summer. Will plant them this Fall

I'm wondering how deep I should plant them?

'da Kid

day_trippr · Aug 29, 2015

The10mmKid said:
[...]I'm wondering how deep I should plant them?

The universal rule of transplanting sez the crown should sit at the same level in the soil before and after the move...

Cheers!

The10mmKid · Aug 29, 2015

day_trippr said:
The universal rule of transplanting sez the crown should sit at the same level in the soil before and after the move...

Cheers!

Thus is my problem Trip . . . . there is no crown.

These were started from cuttings.
I've been reading (not hops specific) that the crown forms 'after' flower production.

I've 'up' potted them twice now. They seem real happy. When I tilt one out of it's pot, there are a ton of fine roots.

'da Kid

thaymond · Aug 29, 2015

The soil of the potted plant should be about even with the soil on the ground. You'll mound soil on top after the small bines die back for fall. Everything should grow back with a vengeance in the spring.

1fast636 · Aug 30, 2015

sablesurfer · Aug 31, 2015

1fast636 said:
So did a harvest ale this weekend with 1/4lb of wet hops from my four producers comet, chinook, cent, and cascade

Said brew day:

Strike and sparge water hopped (yes overkill but hey why not lol)
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I am in no way critiquing your brew day, looks like fun and something I have wanted to do since my first harvest.

This step will make me go look up my hop books because I am not sure that plain water will give good extract levels. It is why a hop tea is nothing like what a beer will end up with. But, I am not sure what is extracted in water vs wort, so have to look it up again.

Kharnynb · Sep 1, 2015

My northern brewer seem to have decided not to make cones the first year....

The unknown hops are starting to look ready, any guesses among the experts on what it could be?

1fast636 · Sep 1, 2015

sablesurfer said:
I am in no way critiquing your brew day, looks like fun and something I have wanted to do since my first harvest.

This step will make me go look up my hop books because I am not sure that plain water will give good extract levels. It is why a hop tea is nothing like what a beer will end up with. But, I am not sure what is extracted in water vs wort, so have to look it up again.

Lol yea I wasn't going to but decided might as well have hops in every step of the brew day so the over kill additions and over kill in the strike and sparge and mash came in as well lol, got a nice hop tea color and aroma in the strike water and sparge water so added alittle something lol

sleepspeaking · Sep 3, 2015

mrjohnson11 said:
I have Nugget, Cascade in their second year, Chinook, Columbia in their first, we will see who survives the Texas Summer (Williamette is holding on by a thread from last year). I also planted some beans to help replace the nitrogen in the soil (I read that somewhere not sure exactly what I am doing or how that works). I also have a row of barley coming in nicely!

Where in Texas? I was hoping to start a few of my own. How'd yours hold up?

svenness · Sep 6, 2015

Last Cascade plant in my yard with cones on them still. Willamettes (so small!), and Centennials are all picked.

CharlieJ · Sep 13, 2015

Ready for harvest

CharlieJ · Sep 13, 2015

WilliamSlayer · Sep 17, 2015

Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full! Co-worker who grows (but doesn't brew) gave me three 1 gallon ziplock bags of these great Centennial hops. Score!

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OleBrewing · Sep 18, 2015

Third year columbus. 8 pounds wet off of one plant. One other columbus to go, some chinook and nugget left.

With all that columbus looks like some columbus' voyage ipa in the future.
And there is dog also.