Posted on 05/25/2008 2:40:34 PM PDT by kingattax
My neighbor must have gotten annoyed at my hop vines growing into his yard so he planted some grape vine things - my hops now just use them as trellises.
Spent a little extra time in th hop yard today to make sure I get a good harvest.
I checked out the price of gruit, or really the wild spices from which it is made. At least in small quantities it is still many times the price of the most expensive(rare) hops.
I guess an herbalist could go out in the woods and find the plants on their own...but of course this would only work for homebrew quantities.
At present, it would be much more expensive, but it does stand as an option should hops go the way of the barrel of oil.
Where there’s a will, there’s fermentation.
Doesn't he have the audacity of hops?
ROFL - those commercials used to rock. I always watch those old beer and cigarette commericials on YouTube.
I’ve got my own hops started. (Chinook and Willamette) Of course, it’ll be another year before I can brew more than a gallon of beer with homegrown hops. Until then, I’m getting a crash course in hops substitutions at the local HBS shop.
Yes, but he's fighting against the woman who married (and stuck with) the man from Hops, Arkansas!
Seriously, the price of a good sixer is going up, but I'm damned lucky that I'm making more money than I was last year, so I can afford it.
Want to buy some hops? Pay now, beat the price increase. Delivery in 2018.
Hamm’s was out of business, a Minnesota brewery bought the rights to the names of several “old school” regional beers as a marketing technique. Their advertising research found that the younger set wanted to be different (like everybody else) and really flocked to the whole “vibe” of these names.
I first heard of the hop shortage after a big warehouse of hops caught on fire, out in Washington state iirc. I have a good supply of tettnanger plugs in those mylar pouches in the freezer, I think they will keep OK for a while. I agree with what someone said about some over-hopped beers in the microbrews, it was just silly.
Without some hops though, the flavor and keeping qualities are greatly reduced.
Where do I get hop.. hops? Seeds? Cuttings? Are they hard to grow? Do deer like to eat them or anything like that?
Right, and don't forget, Cindy McCain's family business is a beer distributor.
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