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[Pumbaa]

Well I'm out in the yard today getting all the gardens in order and was also working in my hops. Last year I planted rhizomes and 4 made it through the winter and are growing like gangbusters, I should have a real nice crop of cascades and . . . . I CANT REMEMBER THE OTHER VARITY!!!!

I had them both marked with the bags they came in but now I cant find the bag for that second type of hops

 

[Flyin' Lion]

You should be able to tell by the smell, after they come in right? There's gotta be a hop expert on here that can help. :cross:

 

[user 574]

buy em online? Maybe the vendor can look upthe order for ya.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Well I'm out in the yard today getting all the gardens in order and was also working in my hops. Last year I planted rhizomes and 4 made it through the winter and are growing like gangbusters, I should have a real nice crop of cascades and . . . . I CANT REMEMBER THE OTHER VARITY!!!!

I had them both marked with the bags they came in but now I cant find the bag for that second type of hops

I would guess a bittering hop of some kind. Did you have a bittering/flavoring thing in mind when you ordered them?

 

[david_42]

I wouldn't be surprised if you have a post here with the types.

 

[Pumbaa]

yeah I bought them online but they dont have an order history I can access online and I'm not going to bother them

Actually I think I went with 2 types of aroma hops because I read somewhere home grown hops for bittering put you in a game of hit or miss since ya dont really know the AA level

I check my old posts and I did mention them before but not the variety . . .

I'm thinking that they are either Willamette or Fuggles BUT they could very well be Nugget as well

I guess it doesnt matter since I'll only be using them for aroma and flavoring in my summer beer . . . whats the best way to have a house ale and keep the recipie a secret?


Forget WTF you put into it LOL

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

So true. I made the best sweet stout ever last summer. Quite possibly the most perfect sweet (non lactose) stout. Recipe was on the laptop. Laptop HD dies.... The silent scream broke windows...

 

[Catfish]

If you want to identify hops the leaves are the best indicators.

 

[krispy d]

how good are your notes? got any old recipes? check the dates and you might find your missing variety...

 

[boo boo]

So true. I made the best sweet stout ever last summer. Quite possibly the most perfect sweet (non lactose) stout. Recipe was on the laptop. Laptop HD dies.... The silent scream broke windows...

Yeah since I started using promash, I've started leaving everything on my 'puter. I should transfer every recipie to paper like I had been doing.

When I planted my hops, I did write down the type of hop in each bed and exactly where they were planted.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

You need this guy:

 

[Pumbaa]

You need this guy:

no doubt. At this point I'm pretty sure they are nugget. What happened was when I got my hops I planted then and then stapled the bags they cam in to some stakes and put the stakes in next to the plants problem is one of the bags is now gone. I didnt use any of the hops last year in any recipies because of low yield off the first year plants.

Oh well like I said all I plan on ever using them for is the house summer ale and then only using them for flavor and aroma so it really dont matter I guess. It's just the ultimate seceret fromula

 

[Pumbaa]

Yeah since I started using promash, I've started leaving everything on my 'puter. I should transfer every recipie to paper like I had been doing.

That reminds me I should brun my stuff to a CD and post them here . . . Maybe the next rainy day . . .

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

In my case the "next rainy day" came after my HD disaster.

 

[david_42]

Wild Hop ales pop up now and then. One local brewery has this ancient hop plant in their yard and once a year they make a batch. I suspect it's Bullion. That or it's been cross-breeding with the Himalayan blackberries.

 

[the_Roqk]

I planted mine alphabetically ie; cascade, fuggles, nugget, willamette. Works for me. Course I put the tags on the stakes near the plants and that helps also. Hey we all got our own way of categorizing things.

Cheers!

 

[Pumbaa]

Course I put the tags on the stakes near the plants and that helps also.

Thats basicly what I did, but lost the stake and tag

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

You could always get a plant biologist student from a university to classify them for you.