My wife just called it "armadillo hops"

[arl6280]

SWMBOs friend grows hops in her front yard, has been telling me for weeks she's bring me some. I asked my wife if she knew what kind of hops they are...i'm done. Shes just too pure!

 

[bob1852]

I don't get it...

http://hopwhisperer.blogspot.com/2016/04/armadillo-experimental-hop-tasting-notes.html?m=1

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

I named an amarillo hopped IPA "Armadillo Juice"

 

[day_trippr]

From what I can find the market presence for Armadillo was short lived, somewhere around 2014-2015 was pretty much it.
I sure can't find anything in the last couple of years referencing its availability.

And being experimental the odds of it growing in some auntie's front yard are vanishingly small.
So this anecdote shall be considered "cute" in deference to the OP...

Cheers!

 

[rburrelli]

From what I can find the market presence for Armadillo was short lived, somewhere around 2014-2015 was pretty much it.
I sure can't find anything in the last couple of years referencing its availability.

And being experimental the odds of it growing in some auntie's front yard are vanishingly small.
So this anecdote shall be considered "cute" in deference to the OP...

Cheers!

And how does auntie know that the hops growing in her front yard are actually Amarillo?

 

[Stand]

Pretty sure you can't grow those. They don't sell them, no?

 

[day_trippr]

Ironically, it's almost certain that they were not Amarillo or Armadillo.
Much more likely they were "Ornamental"...

Cheers!

 

[smata67]

My 85 year old grandmother told us once she was growing what she thought were hops in her front yard, but one day cops pulled up and yanked the plants out of the ground and told her not to do it again or there would be trouble. Lesson learned: don't grow "hops" in your front yard. Best left for somewhere in the back or a seldom used closet.