With a lot of cones on the bines, I want to do a couple fresh hopped ales probably next month. I’ve never used fresh hops in a brew before. For those of you who have, approximately how many ounces of fresh hops would equal an ounce of dried hops as far as alpha acids and bittering goes? I’m assuming that there is some sort of conversion factor here.
Weigh a couple ounces, dry it over night, reweigh it. Do math.
If 2oz wet weighs 1/4oz dry then you need 8 times as much wet than dry.
Another thought… you aren’t cloning another beer right? Or expecting to clone this one later? So, I’d bitter with a known commercial hop, then do like a pound of your woo hoo wet hops at flame out.
Commercially Dried hops have 8-10% moisture, use 10% to keep the math simple, so 90% vegetal material.
To get the same amount of vegetal material (Lublin and oils), 90/20=4.5 times as much wet as dry. To get the full fresh hop aroma, use 5 or 6 times, because you can!
+1 to using hops with a known aa for bittering. But if you really want to use all your own hops, just wing it! It’s OK! And fun! I measure wet hops by the handful! Or just top off your kettle with hops at flameout and whirlpool as usual. Wet hopped brewing is a fun once a year event that shouldn’t be taken too seriously!
+1
This is what I do once a year, I take my favorite house pale and just wing it with the centennial and cascades I grow, usually winds up as a damn tasty beer!
How different is the result with wet hops? A LHBS has emailed me saying that they are taking pre-orders for fresh Cascade and Chinook grown here in Ohio. Really interested in throwing some wet chinook in for bittering, and a couple late cascade additions for flavor and aroma. They will have pounds and ounces available, so thinking about a pound of each… Any thoughts?
edit: or should I be looking at 2 pounds of cascade?
ANybody know when the harvest is in Ohio typically? I was assuming these would be picked this week and next for delivery end of next week, have an email out to the LHBS asking about when picked
I’m brewing my fresh hopped IPA Friday. I got a large number of Zeus, chinook, centennial and cascades ready to go. I didn’t get much production from the others. These four breeds are ready to go…, time to start the yeast!