Well, the final cones have been harvested from the bines for my first year of growing. The last picking yielded in wet amounts: 2.80 oz of centennial and 11.40 oz of cascade. All in all, not a bad year considering most I've read says not to expect any hops the first year. I'll be doing a batch of pale ale or an IPA soon to try out my hops. Probably the IPA first, combining the homegrown cascade and centennial with amarillo. Yum!
My next post I'll have the total dry hop amounts for the year, and hopefully some pictures of hop plugs made with my new plugger!
Hop Plugger Project
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Along with taking on growing your own hops, comes the challenge of
packaging them so that they stay fresh. The first 2 harvests, I just
packaged in Zip Loc...
16 years ago
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