Overnight my hops were bone dry. Got them all vacuum packed. Ended up with just short of a pound. Going to make a home grown red tomorrow.
I could see if the guy doesn’t mind me picking more. Especially if I picked the bush clean for him and left what I don’t want to use for his man cave potpourri.
That’s some fast drying Klickitat. May hops are still a lil wet but firm and unmushy.
It might be dry east of those mountains. Relative humidity is what, Jim?
Not sure yesterday but today is 40% and getting ready to rain.
Yes. My understanding is you have to pick them and either dry them or use them within 24 hours wet. Freezing them is not advised.
I froze them for about 16 hours and then brought them out and laid flat for three days drying.
They were very brown by the time they were dry, i would say a brown hop for every green hop. Still had a hop smell, and yellow at the base of the petals. Think I’ll just scrap this batch and see if i can pick more.
I’m not asking Freud, but does size matter? I picked a lot of the larger hops last time. But the vine had lots more smaller hops on it.
I think as long as I look for the yellow base and stickiness of the base they should be good hops. Yet i still need to ask, does size matter?
it might,
the smaller cones could be less mature so they would have a less strong flavor. They might just be slightly more stressed so they might actually have a more strong flavor.
The larger cones, if older, might have been oxidized slightly more on the bine which might either make them smell/taste better or smell/taste worse.
so I guess the answer is a definite maybe.