Sooooo. I guess the hops shortage is over...

[z987k]

Group buy anyone?

11 bucks a lb aint too bad

Yes we hops for sale too - ProBrewer Interactive

lots of the guys at probrewer have hops for sale.

North coast was offloading some of their 2005 simcoes at $5/lb.

 

[olllllo]

Not to be the guy that puts the "IR" in front what seems to be "Rational Exuberance" here but, here is some analysis from Stan Hieronymus:

via Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home Blog Archive But they’ll still call the beer Budweiser

We all love to complain about the lack of hop character in most A-B beers, but the fact is the company has long been a stickler for hop quality. Way beyond what you can taste in the beer. This has helped subsidize the production of low alpha (high flavor and aroma) hops in areas such as Germany’s Halltertau region. If A-B isn’t paying top dollar for these — and InBev has specialized in avoiding paying top dollar for anything — what will hop growers do? Go out of business or turn to high alpha hops such as Magnum (a great hop, but entirely different than Hallertau Tradition or Mittlefrüh).

IMO it's not like gas, as in the gas that everyone uses for cars and diesel trucks, it's like the hi-test racing fuel that is the essence of craft and home brewing.

 

[BierMuncher]

Group buy anyone?

11 bucks a lb aint too bad

Yes we hops for sale too - ProBrewer Interactive

I feel so inadequate.

 

[flyangler18]

If I had space (and the $$) for 50# of Goldings, I'd be all over that like white on rice.

 

[wildwest450]

I feel so inadequate.

Can you imaging what a 50lb bag of leaf hops would look like?

 

[Desert_Sky]

Can you imaging what a 50lb bag of leaf hops would look like?

I would roll around naked in it. Then brew with it and ship em out for secret santa gifts

 

[z987k]

Can you imaging what a 50lb bag of leaf hops would look like?

you could make an IPA even the hopheads would spit out. And then be like, "you girly man."

 

[flyangler18]

I saw some of the 44# mini-bales at Flying Dog- they're 3 ft cubes. :rockin:

 

[the_bird]

I don't remember ever seeing Hops Direct offering 44# bundles of hops.
.

They used to offer - I want to say it was 300# bales of leaf hops for sale. Under a grand. This was probably more than two years ago; I remember joking around that we should all chip in for a bale or two and fill up a swimming pool...

Of course, they're not JUST selling to homebrewers, and I've got to believe that we represent what... 0.0000001% of the hop production goes to homebrew? Well, unless Dude's brewing his Pliny clone, then it goes up a few points.

 

[dontman]

I saw some of the 44# mini-bales at Flying Dog- they're 3 ft cubes. :rockin:

Sounds about right.

Not only would I not have enough refrigerator space I wouldn't even have have enough dry storage space.

I am also thinking of those last few ounces of the 50th lb. Mmm, they would be .02 % AA maybe.

It would be neat to see but I think I have to stick with one pound purchases.

 

[Aspera]

I would roll around naked in it. Then brew with it and ship em out for secret santa gifts

+1 on the roll naked in EKG

 

[roylee]

I'm exposing my ignorance here, but what and where is this "HD" that sells Hallertau and Cascade for these prices?

 

[rj0715]

http://www.hopsdirect.com/:D