Whats going on with the price of Centennial?

[Qs]

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.

[delzep]

Supply and demand, same as anything really

[DEMPSEY]

Was flagged a year ago as one of the hops in short supply and so hence the price rise.

[Leann ull]

try Citra for price, the issue is availability!

[pob]

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.

[Bubbles]

Citra is nearly €9 per 100g on HBC these days. Never seen it that expensive.

[Qs]

€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).

[nigel_c]

I was looking to get hops in from Yakima valley hops but I'm gonna wait till the new crops in around October.

[delzep]

Did someone say group buy? 

[Shane Phelan]

Probably works out the same for a group buy as you end up dumping half the hops the following year...

[Leann ull]

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

[nigel_c]

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.

[Qs]

I think I might go for something like that and just get loads of my go to hops to try and avoid spoilage.

[Qs]

100g of Simcoe is €14.95 on HBW 

[armedcor]

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.