How's everyones hops plants doing so far?

[Tom]

Ikea do Hop Dryers...
http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/catalog/categories/departments/childrens_ikea/20477-2/

I used these last year. Perfect!

That's clever.

[Shane Phelan]

Ikea do Hop Dryers...
http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/catalog/categories/departments/childrens_ikea/20477-2/

I used these last year. Perfect!

That's clever.

+1 Very Good! Definitely doing that next year.

[brenmurph]

550 g fairly dry hallertauer, 350 gram of wet saaz, about 200 g of  fairly dry saphir, and the target in the polytunnel will yield up to a kilo. I also have  a handfull or hersbruker and the Taurus didnt do well at all got hit bigtime with whitefly and i didnt use any spray as its against my code of gardening

[brenmurph]

did anyone every consider an AC unit in a small room.. Cold dry air will preserve the aromatic oils the heat will evaporate

[Tom]

Useful?

http://www.czhops.cz/tc/pdf/optimisation.pdf

[delzep]

Good man.
Wet or dry?

What ye mean?

[brenmurph]

ah didnt know that... there were loads of references to cooler drying..  Im freezin loads of mine slightly  wet, drying some of each and using a few fairly soon  ( sunday, the stout brewday for the event) . The target wil be goin into the stout along with some Saphir to give the Murphy's aroma.

[Tom]

@BrenMurph Freezing then thawing wet hops might affect your trub/hop removal at the end of the boil. Thawed hops are quite likely to disintegrate in the boil, so it'd be like using pellets.

[delzep]

Good man.
Wet or dry?

What ye mean?

Hops weigh roughly 6 times more when wet than when dried.

If your recipe calls for 100g, dry is implied so it'll mean 600g of wet hops.

So when they are picked, they are considered wet (even though they were picked on a hot sunny day)?

[brenmurph]

I disagree shane... we had a wet hop brewday last week when we made the harp lager 1962 recipe.. I used only double the Beersmith recomendation not anywhere 6 times.
weve been tasting daily ( via our new taster tap on the conical and the bitterness and aroma is fine. I suspect it depends on how dry they are on the plant and guess that without some moisture gismo we may have to guess at that.  I read a few bits on fresh hop brewing and it may be worth considering if fresh hops have a lot more aroma than processed dried.. I bet they do... so I cant agree.. Would be nice if everyone using fresh hops kept some log and maybe a meet up to taste fresh hop beers is in order.

[brenmurph]

@ tube
I heard references to that ok ...ive also read that its not true.   thats why im drying part and freezing part.. Ill then make a brew and use fresh versus  dry and see  what comes out

[brenmurph]

its ridiculous to say that fresh hops have  80% moisture... depending on where they are, how ripe they are, whether they are in a dry hot polytuinnel or out in pissy wet rain on a shitty autumn day in Ireland...all hops on a plant arnt 80% moisture just like every field of barley isnt at the same moisture. A grain farmers bill for drying his product may be 1 grand or 10 grand depending on the  moisture of the grain depending on the weather and other factors. Thats why they love to harvest on the last day of a dry spell

[imark]

My fuggles harvest... 23g dry weight. Picked few days ago and it weighed 104g at that time. The empirical evidence in my case backs up the 80% moisture estimate.

[brenmurph]

I was chattin to con trass and that idea  passed his mnd.. wonderful region for hops id say if he decided to grow them.. hes just trialling brewing of cider and he may go commercial. I have a bottle of his festival cider we got the weekend. ill take it to lucan and let yis try it along with the beetroot beer and the coors clone.

[brenmurph]

My fuggles harvest... 23g dry weight. Picked few days ago and it weighed 104g at that time. The empirical evidence in my case backs up the 80% moisture estimate.

thats 4 and a half times mark   not six : ?