I do not know how many people on the forum are on the Hops Direct (HD) mailing list, but I believe that HD may have my ticket. They send out a sale e-mail message, and I am first in line to purchase a couple of pounds of hops. I have purchased 14 pounds of hops since the spring. There is no way on God’s green earth that I am ever going to use all of these hops. I use two to three ounces of hops per batch. I end up giving away pounds of hops just to make room for more hops. It is an addiction. 
I don’t wind up giving much away, but I also buy my hops by the pound. I also tend to cycle around a few different ones, though, so I only tend to experiment with the trendy hops (I like playing around with single hop IPAs with them). I use more than you in most cases, though, since I brew 10 gallon batches.
Mark, you are preaching to the choir! I just bought 4 more lbs of hops last week that I couldn’t have needed, as there were 5 lbs of perfectly good ones in the freezer. But I get excited like a kid when the new crop comes out every year. So that excitement netted me Centennial, Galaxy, Chinook, and Mittelfrueh to go with the others. My wife doesn’t share the excitement. 
Hi, my name is Steve and I have an addiction to ordering hops by the pound.
It has taken every last bit of my will power to not order 2015 hops. I still have hops direct sealed Mylar bags from 2012 that I need to use. I’ve been meaning to brew this one recipe out of vintage ales that calls for an entire pound of fuggles, I’m subbing Willamette, but haven’t been able to. Even if I got rid of that pound, I have another 5 lbs of various hops packed up.
Honestly, even if I dump or give away half of what I buy, I’m still paying less compared to buying at my lhbs by the ounce.
You could open a brewpub with just those right there and I’d be a very happy customer.
My “corner” of the family freezer is definitely growing beyond my current brewing capacity.
No joke. Far better quality than the LHBS too, who opens containers repeatedly to sell by the oz.
My wife tolerates my addiction. Luckily, she is a life scientist by training, so my yeast addiction flies under the radar.
My primary shop does sell Hop Union ounce packs, but it’s expensive.
Yeah, it’d be a good start for sure ! Citrus, tropical/resiny, pine, and killer noble floral/spice. Covers a lot of territory.
Mine too, but in limited varieties. Otherwise it’s weighed out of mason jars - open, close, open, close,etc.
I have been thinking about getting the wide-mouth sealer for my FoodSaver and using Mason jars for my pellets.
I just got the narrow mouth jar sealer. Pint jars hold about 8oz. I still plan on using bags since they take up less space for small amounts.
So have I. I have a Food Saver, too, and that option would be really nice. So many purchases to prioritize.
Oh man. My freezer just died with about 10# of chicken that went rotten… same freezer that had all of my hops in it. Terrified to use any of them (but will do a test batch next week to see if they are ruined, despite vacuum sealing and mylar).
I guess I should place an order just in case!
My new years resolution was to use the hops I have in the freezer prior to buying any more pounds of hops…that lasted 3 months…the stores have been replenished…I love hops…when I see a pound for a good price…gotta get it…
Hop prices are really up this year, so I took advantage of the 2014 pellet closeout to add 5 additional pounds of pellets to my collection. I was 100% whole cones with a false bottom in my kettle 100% of the time up until this year, but whole cones limited the number of cultivars that I could have on hand due to the amount of freezer space that a pound of whole cones consumes. My wife cried foul when I started filling up of our food freezer with the overflow from the frozen food compartment of my brewing refrigerator.
I avoided using pellets for the better part of twenty-three years because I hate having to deal with pellet sludge. I started using a 6" hop filter from Arbor Fab a couple of batches ago. So far, I have been pleased with the results. I had to adjust the way that I hop because I have to remove the filter to insert my immersion chiller, but I forgot how effective 5 to 15 minute late additions can be with the right cultivars. I was just adding kettle and knockout/hopstand charges. I am thinking about switching back to using a counterflow chiller.
Just leave your chiller in full boil. I do that now just because I don’t want another thing to deal with.
The chiller will not fit with the hop filter in the kettle. The kettle that I use most frequently only holds 27 quarts. I am currently working on building an electric brewery based on a custom-built 10-gallon Spike kettle. That kettle will require a modified immersion chiller or a counter flow chiller.
My addiction is specialty malts. I have a reasonable amount of hops but the variety of specialty malts I have actually kind of complicates recipe building because I always want to use this or that.
I hear you there. I currently have a convoluted immersion chiller from MoreBeer that I picked up at a bargain years ago. It sits at an angle eliminating the possibility of using a rigid filter. Instead I use large BIAB bags and clamp it to the kettle edge with a small spring clamp.
When I convert to electric, I will likely add some sort of ridged supports to the chiller so it sits centered, plumb, and off of the element, or possibly switch to another chiller. Too much up in the air to make solid decisions.
I was looking at boil coils, but they are too expensive and lock a brewer into their specs. The fact that they are beyond ULWD and hug the outside is appealing, but not enough for me. I’m going 2" tri clamp from Spike with a 4500w ripple element from electric brewery supply. It is a bummer that the tri-clad bottom will add weight and no utility for my needs, but everything else about their kettles is top notch from what I have seen.