Picking my hops. When and then what to do?

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Permalink Reply by Sam Nelson on March 21, 2012 at 10:20am

Thanks Pilgrim, did you freeze them after vacuum sealing them? thats my plan as they should last better that way.

they were picked on sunday when they were pretty well dry on the bine then have been drying with the dehumidifier in the garage since then so i'd say they are getting pretty dry by now.

They are on net curtain material so they should get good ventilation all-round and I mix them up twice a day.

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Permalink Reply by Pilgrim on March 21, 2012 at 8:08pm

I refrigerated them and within a short time, maybe a month, they were a smelly soggy mess. This time they are a lot drier and I've put some in the freezer and some in the fridge, both in zip lock bags. We'll see how they are in a month.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Fraser on April 1, 2012 at 9:37pm

Well, i picked 580g wet and after drying it turned out to be 110g dry. Just enough for a hoppy pale ale i think using FWH and late hopping to get the most out of them. I dug up my smoothcone which i'm re-homing and wow, those roots don't hang around. My Cascade has been cut down to about a metre long and laid in a trench. I've been told that come spring time shoots will pop up along it's length which can then be cut off to make new plants. Looking forward to spring!

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