Its gone through the roof, its more expensive now than the proprietary hops. Anyone know whats caused this massive price rise, it used to be a pretty reasonable price. Its really annoying too because its a great hop. I use it in so many beers.
Supply and demand, same as anything really
Was flagged a year ago as one of the hops in short supply and so hence the price rise. :(
try Citra for price, the issue is availability!
Try, either:
http://pint.com.au/calculators/hopsubstitution/
Or
(Looking for great link to site, which had table to work out how to create hop alternatives, eg of what it did (example not true) Centennial = 40% Cascade + 25% Amarillo + 15% Summit.
Citra is nearly €9 per 100g on HBC these days. Never seen it that expensive.
€10 for Simcoe on HBC, holy shit.
Might see about getting some hops for the US. Pity the euro is so weak (probably contributing to this anyway).
I was looking to get hops in from Yakima valley hops but I'm gonna wait till the new crops in around October.
Did someone say group buy? O0
Probably works out the same for a group buy as you end up dumping half the hops the following year...
Yakima prices are not that much cheaper when you include freight.
I've just thrown out another 750g of 2013 hops last week, never again :(
I bought about 2 kg of super fresh hops from them before. Didn't pay any extra duty and had no bother getting through them all. Got 500g of a few different ones.
Anything over the 2 - 2.kg you'll attract nosy tax men.
I think I might go for something like that and just get loads of my go to hops to try and avoid spoilage.
100g of Simcoe is €14.95 on HBW :o
Out of stock right now but the malt Miller has Simcoe for around 7 euro for 100g. If you needed a few things he's worth the price of shipping.
Geterbrewed half price of HBC for Simcoe. HBC would have cost me 10 euro more (50%) for 4 hops for a brew I just priced..