Brewing with home grown while hops-Tips?

[rtracer]

Hey all, so I harvested and dried my Cascades and I am going to harvest my Columbus today. In a week or two I plan on brewing my first batch using solely my home grown, except a a 1/2 oz warrior pellets for bittering.
I have always only used store bought pellets and upon drying and weighing my hops, I realized how large a quantity the whole hops are per oz, and I like to use a lots of oz's

I plan on something like
1 ea @ 10
1 ea @ 5
2 ea @ flame out
2 or 3 ea dryhop.

I assume I will have a lot more loss due to the hops?

I am thinking bumping up my volumes a bit to get more in wort in the fermentor. Also, do I just toss in the hops, or should they be crushed or something?

 

[Tcl1999]

Hey all, so I harvested and dried my Cascades and I am going to harvest my Columbus today. In a week or two I plan on brewing my first batch using solely my home grown, except a a 1/2 oz warrior pellets for bittering.
I have always only used store bought pellets and upon drying and weighing my hops, I realized how large a quantity the whole hops are per oz, and I like to use a lots of oz's

I plan on something like
1 ea @ 10
1 ea @ 5
2 ea @ flame out
2 or 3 ea dryhop.

I assume I will have a lot more loss due to the hops?

I am thinking bumping up my volumes a bit to get more in wort in the fermentor. Also, do I just toss in the hops, or should they be crushed or something?

Nah, just toss them in. I harvested my cascade and used them like any other commercial hop. Obviously I had no idea what the AA% was, so I just went IPA. Turned out great. You might find that you have a lot of aphids, but I didn't notice any flavor problems. Called it an Aphid Ale!

 

[day_trippr]

Aphids suck.

Cheers! (had to be said )

 

[rtracer]

Hey, as long as they fall out with a cold crash I'm good

 

[Tcl1999]

Yeah, never saw any in the finished product, but man, when transferring from the fermenter to the keg it looked like a graveyard.