When to harvest and use these hops?

[BierGut]

What are some indicators that will let me know when it's time to harvest my hops?

And when I do harvest, can I go straight from the vine into the kettle or is it better to dry them first?

 

[dmunkey]

You can go straight from harvest to kettle, its called wet hopping. If you harvest your hops at the correct time you are looking at a 5:1 or 6:1 ratio of what your recipe calls for. For example if you were going to use 1oz of normal pellet hops for your recipe you would use 5 or 6oz of wethops, since the water weight makes them much heavier.

When someone asks how to know when to harvest your hops i always send them this video from Bobby at brewhardware.com.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlsT-x19III[/ame]

 

[sfish]

Thank you I had the same question.

Mine look to be a couple of weeks out. They should be ready while I am away on vacation for 2 weeks. There seems to be a small window to harvest.

Is it better to harvest early or late? From the video late there is nothing early you have grassyass.

 

[dmunkey]

I would say a 7 day window for harvest. Depends on how early or how late you'll be i suppose.