Hop Help!

[stever1000]

I need some help with these hops... I picked them from a local brewers garden today and I am wondering if they are okay to use. They are nugget, and most of them smell floraly, with the odd one smelling slightly like cheese.

Are these all okay to use? I don't want to go one by one smelling and determining if they smell right, but on the other hand I don't want to waste my time and grain if they ruin my beer.

The lighting is not the greatest, but most of them are greeny(like the first pic) and/or yellowy
Some are faint green without much color.

I am going to dry them with a fan and screen, any advice on whether they are all good to use would be great! Thanks!!

 

[timdillon36]

I would use every last Oz. Looks like you have 2 or maybe even 3 there.

 

[behindthetimes]

If it were me, I'd just make a couple hop teas. One with some good smelling ones, and one with some different smelling ones. Just bring a couple cups of water to the boil, turn the heat off, drop some hops in, stir for a bit and let it cool, maybe refrigerate it, then taste it.

 

[stever1000]

If it were me, I'd just make a couple hop teas. One with some good smelling ones, and one with some different smelling ones. Just bring a couple cups of water to the boil, turn the heat off, drop some hops in, stir for a bit and let it cool, maybe refrigerate it, then taste it.

The aroma isn't strong unless I roll them in my fingers, and making a few different teas wouldn't represent the end product because they are all mixed together

 

[stever1000]

I would use every last Oz. Looks like you have 2 or maybe even 3 there.

It's a couple pounds wet... so I'm hoping for 6oz

 

[stever1000]

If I use all of the hops, without drying them, and use them as a 60min addition, could I expect it to work well at bittering and I would entirely avoid the aroma/flavour of the "bad" hops?

 

[stever1000]

If I use all of the hops, without drying them, and use them as a 60min addition, could I expect it to work well at bittering and I would entirely avoid the aroma/flavour of the "bad" hops?

Anyone? I have some drying now and some in the fridge (undried)

 

[stever1000]

I used 19oz of wet hops last night and saved 7 oz of dried hops for the future.

I will see how it tastes in a few weeks...not sure what to expect.
I also added some cascade at the end to help mask any off flavours from the "bad" hops

 

[stever1000]

By pure miracle my OG was 1.038 due to miscalculating my water volumes....BUT the old, mystery yeast, I pitched must be my 3711 saison from last year...it brought the gravity down to 1.000...a handful of mistakes and the outcome is 5% beer...not bad

 

[Chanoc]

By pure miracle my OG was 1.038 due to miscalculating my water volumes....BUT the old, mystery yeast, I pitched must be my 3711 saison from last year...it brought the gravity down to 1.000...a handful of mistakes and the outcome is 5% beer...not bad

What about flavor/bitterness?

 

[IloveWorts]

Those hops look dank

 

[stever1000]

What about flavor/bitterness?

Flavour is good, bitterness is less than I was expecting but I have no idea how to approximate it since they are wet hops and may not be prime

The cascade at the end of the boil definitely helped

 

[stever1000]

Those hops look dank

In a positive or negative way ?

 

[day_trippr]

lol

 

[stever1000]

Going to keg this today and hope for the best. If it turns out bad, its only a few bucks and my time