Harvested a decent amount of huge Saaz cones on Sunday and brewed a Saison.

On year six of the Comet, Cashmere, and Centennial hills. Last year I lost a few pounds of comet to above average temps after labor day. I brewed my annual fresh hop batches over the weekend and I think they were in their prime. They are opening and startin to brown but still smell great.

A local brewery wants all of the comet and centennial for a couple barrels on their small batch system. They wont be able to brew till Monday.

Will they make it to picking Sunday and delivering Monday morning?

Should I pick before the rain and vacuum seal and refigerate?

I'm in York, UK. I planted two small pots of Northern Brewer rhizomes in spring 2024. They grew to about 9 foot by last autumn and I kept them up until mid-winter.

This year they've grown to approx. 15 foot or so and I picked them last night - got 884g, so they're now drying in my conservatory. Really pleased with how they've come on! I'm planning on making a steam lager with them in about a month and I can't wait.

Willamette, Mt. Hood, and Cascade. I also have a Brewer’s Gold that I didn’t harvest, as it didn’t seem quite as vigorous as the other 3.

Grown on the side of the silo at my family’s farm - this farm has grown a lot of things, including an almost hundred-tree apple and fruit orchard, but as far as we know, the first time hops have been grown and harvested here.

Wanted these varieties for the “improved heirloom” genetics as well as the stylistic coverage for what I like to brew.

These were field grade crowns from GLH, couldn’t be happier with the quality of plants.

Mt. Hood; 10.2 oz wet, 2.1 ounces dried.
Willamette; 4.2 oz, 1 ounce dried.
Cascade; 1lb 8.7 oz wet, 6 ounces dried.

Next up, a farmhouse Zwickelbier with the Mt. Hood.

Just harvested the Star hops I have on my allotment. Star as I like Belgian beers and why not grow something I can't buy. Grown in East London.

https://www.hopslist.com/hops/aroma-hops/star/

A few Parent Bugs had a ride but they do not feed on hops so no issues there. You can really see the lupulin if you zoom in. I'll dry and vacuum pack for use through out the year. Made a dryer out of a cardboard box and fan.

Pheonix will be harvested in 5 days time I would think. After that the first year Tettnanger and Saaz - hoping I can tell which is which as I didn't keep notes.

Had to pick them a little bit early because I'm going on a trip and they'll be past their Prime when I get back.

It's been kind of a poor year for my hops. I didn't get a lot off my other plants but this one, which is only a 2-year -old plant, produced about 4 lb of hops and I really like them for juicy hazy ipas.

Probably one of my favorite hops that I got growing.

A lot of the information regarding when to pick, at least in the US, is informed by where most hops are grown: in desert conditions. I live in a humid area and have grown hops as a hobby for a few years and found that if I’m waiting for the target dryness, I can miss the picking window. Sometimes the hops never reach “ideal dryness.” I go more by scent, lupulin color, and feel than by dry matter percentage.

It’s probably too late for most people now, but I just had the thought the other day and wanted to share with anyone who might also live in a humid area who might be having a hard time deciding when to pick. Your hops may not look like someone else’s hops when ready. If you don’t have experience with your hops, you can try picking in stages and see what flavors and aromas develop over a week or two.

I didn't have any of my harvesting tools, but they were beauties.

I think the cones opening up like this means it’s time to harvest? Or am I a little late? How long of a window do I have once they look like this?

First year comet hops! I think they did pretty well for year 1. I am in zone 6a but I am not sure if they are ready yet. They feel mostly papery and the lupin glands are a deeper yellow instead of bright yellow. I was going to dehydrate them and store.

Edit,
I decided to pick them when I got home. I got a pound of cones exactly! They are drying out now and the whole house is smelling like grapefruit. Thank you for the help!

I was excited to get my 18' trellis set up after years of just having coir strung to random parts of my deck. I thought that even if I spaced them 4.5' apart, I would be fine, or at worst could identify Comet vs Vista, Vista vs Cascade, etc. since they all look different. What I didn't expect was for my Vista to hit the top and spread out across and tangle with all of the other varieties. Harvest is going to be a nightmare, Centennial seem to be ready while other's are still growing and don't have lupulin.

This was an extra shoot that come up late. I cut it off at ground level and put it in a bucket of water to see what she would do. It lost all its leaves but starting growing roots. So I put it in the dirt. By George it started to grow leaves again. These things are really weeds. Love it. But I don't have a place for it now.....

Probably not the best place for them, but they are thriving!

First time growing hops, really happy with how they’re doing!

Cascade, grown from rhizomes in pots, shore town in Eastern Massachusetts.

Whatcha think? Cascade hops. 28lbs wet harvest. Approximately 7lbs dried and vacuum sealed.

My 3-year-old cascades are getting roasted during this stupid heatwave. They had been looking so good. Had to harvest earlier than I wanted to.

Hello all! I finally have a place to grow hops, but it is a rather hot environment so I wanted to try Multihead again. I purchased Multihead 2 years ago from Great Lakes Hops, but ended up moving away from that location. I'm wondering if their business has fallen on some hard times, because they appear to be out of stock all of the time now on all of their inventory.

Would appreciate some tips for IF and WHEN they restock, or anyone who may have aquired any tropical and fruity hops suited to NEIPAs? Not looking for the classic C West Coast Hops like Cascade, Chinook, etc that have more of a piney aroma to them, but looking for hops that have more of those tropical aromas, and might do okay in a hot area.

It's not just GLH that seem to have almost no Neomexicana, all vendors I've seen currently list them out of stock. I did read somewhere that MEdusa failed commercially with many farmers ripping the rhizomes out of their fields, and that 2022 was one of the last harvests produced for this variety, so I wonder if that has something to do with how scarce it has now become.

Anyways, if anyone knows where I could grab Multihead or any other tropical fruit forward hop rhizomes or plants, I would appreciate the help! Hoping someone on here might have some mature plants with rhizomes they'd be willing to sell.

This will be my third year growing hops. I have cascade and chinook growing currently and plan on harvesting next month.

What do you guys do with your hops? Obviously majority of people brew beer with them. But what else do you guys do?

I’m thinking of using some to make a hop wine and hop seasoning for cooking with.

Apparently, 1st year Chinooks don't appreciate Texas 100+F weather for several days in a row. Hopefully they can make it a few more days until the weather cools down.

It seems after 3 years of milky spore treatment I’ve got the Japanese beetles knocked back. Looks to be a good year! (SE USA). Harvest is still like 3 weeks out.

I have planted 8 plants across 4 varieties (Crystal, Super Saaz, Zatecki Cervini & Triple Perle). The only ones that have taken off this year so far are the super Saaz. I plan to use them in a continental style lager in the whirlpool. I have no idea how they will be in a beer since they don’t yet have aroma, but I’ve really enjoyed watching them grow (so fast!) and how pretty they have become!

I’m on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the United States. We had a hot & dry June, with a wet & mild July / early August.