I too emailed him just to clear something up: the web page states "sold in 1oz packs" thats not what they are selling:
I asked:
"I found your companys web page and was thinking about putting an order together but wanted to ask:
The 1 oz. hop packs are in nitrogen sealed bags?"
He wrote back:
"These pellet hops we are offering are 2009 crop, during harvest we ship our product to be pelletized after they have been dried. We pelletize into 22 pound high vapor barrier food grade foil bags, injected with nitrogen and vacuumed sealed. Then the hops are flash frozen in the 44 pound boxes and stored on a pallet in our warehouse freezer at 24 degrees until we sell them to breweries. We are a wholesale farm and will not re-package your pound of hops in 16 one ounce packs, this is a bulk purchase for the amount of hops you request and will not be in individual one ounce packages."
Me
"That's what I thought but with the seeing: "Sold in 1oz packs" on your web page gave me the impression you might happen to have something packaged for home brewer shops on hand. I certenly wouldn't ask for repackaging. My concern is freshness on my end 10 pounds would take me over a year to consume so knowing how they are packed will effect how much I'd order."
Him:
"No prob I can make them up in 4 pound bags fairly easy, just so you know. Even if you wanted to get 10 lbs of one you really want or use a lot of I could do it line this 4 lbs, 4 lbs, and 2 lbs, if you wanted I just need to know or I will do it all in one bag."
"Ya I have to get the website people to make that tag per ounce not the way it looks I agree it looks like I have them all in one ounce packs and that is just dumb."
This place can ship up to a pound in a usps flat rate box and from there they go to UPS. They just charge base rates; what you'd find un ups's web site
(zip code to zip code + weight).
Has anyone ordered from hops direct?
How are their pounds packaged?
How are their shipping rates?