Hop Harvesting Basics (Picking + Drying)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ย. 2024
- October 1st strikes and we're done with our hops harvest. This week we cover the basics of harvesting like picking, drying and packaging. Hope you guys enjoy this one! #HarvestTime #HopPicking #Hops
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After primary brewing, take your "sludge" from the primary fermentor and dump that on your hop plant bases. They seem to love it.
Great tip, thanks for pointing that out! We’ll try that on our next home brew batch!
Also great to dump it in your compost bin if you have one
Thanks for this video! First time hop grower here in Missouri. I’ve got Cashmere, Fuggles, Triumph, and Vista. Having a blast, so I’m planning to add more varieties next year. Growing them up the side of my windmill.
Nice video, I might use some of your ideas myself. I am in Western NY, on the shore of Lake Ontario. Hops love it here, I usually Harvest in lake Augusta but usually mid-sept, just before they all turn brown. I guess it depends on the weather an this year (2020) I harvested them today! One thing I learned is to not grow them too close to the house foundation. We had terrible flooding here last few years and so I had to dig up around the foundation. The hop roots had grown down the block and worn off the bituminous coating, allowing water through the block. I moved my hop garden away from the house. I now need to make better hop poles so they go higher. I have cascade, haltertau, nugget and magnum.
Cheers!
Great advice, I'm close to harvest time myself too. Weather as been warmer than usual so my cones are close to be ready. I'll be upgrading my pole set up for my Cascade next spring, I want a good 10 to 12 ft. plus ropes that will travel another 10 towards my home. Such a cool plant to grow! Glad you loved the video, will make more about hops next spring to showcase my improved set up!
What a great video! Love your energy and enthusiasm. Thanks for making this!
Thanks a lot, we’ll keep updating the growing hops subject since it’s something we’re still learning about every year. Cheers!
Great behind the scenes look at hop harvesting! You got a nice big crop this year! Well done bud! 🍻
You'll have a bottle or 2 no matter what comes out of the harvest! Cheers!
Love to see the drying process!
Took me a lot more time to go thru this time haha. Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!
This was such a great video, man! Super entertaining, learned a ton. Didn't realize the hop plants were so huge! I remember you guys showing me where you planted them last year but damn, y'all went IN! Love it!
And they keep on growing, quite impressive how aggressive they are!
can you explain a bit more how you did the drying with the dehumidifier and a fan? thanks. great video btw.
Mostly a small room and dehydrator running at maximum. Emptying the water tank as often as possible. The fan just keeps the air flowing at a constant rate and reduces the heating from the dehydrator.
good video and learnt a lot, Here in Ireland I'm growing Mount Hood, Fuggles and Phoenix
That does sound good!
Fun video, just picked my 2020 nugget hops. For cleaning that sticky resin mess I suggest rubbing alchohol surfaces , for your hands as well. Even that hand gel sanitizer works well to breake it down off your hands
Thanks, I never actually thought about that. I'm about to harvest my Nugget too. Can't wait to see it turn out in a beer!
@@bringyourempties
Every year I make a batch with all Nugget, wet hopped I call it Nugget Bomb. Not extremely bitter. It gains character after two or three months with a hints of melon. It is a tradition now!
Woah sounds delicious, we always mix in our Nugget and Cascade into a hazy harvest ale spruced up with Mosaic and Triple Perle.
Really liked your hops plants. Would like to see how did you set them up, which structure is made to let it grow. From your video it looks like some simple ropes. I'm planting Chinook hops and made some wood triangle like structure, dunno if it is properly set. Anyway hops are growing each day here I am curious when it reaches to the top to see how plant will start behaving.
Thanks, it's a quite simple set up, wood structure with ropes going down. I've recently upgraded the set-up which is not perfect yet. I've went with a higher wood post with an iron string attached to my home, needs a lot of adjustments but would probably be good to do an update about it soon. Thanks for watching too!
Merci! J’ai fait pousser une plante cet été et j’avais aucune idée comment préparer! Très illuminant! :D
Merci! Quelle variété fais-tu pousser? Fais-moi savoir si il y a d'autres choses que tu aimerais apprendre!
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
@@bringyourempties just planted my 2 nugget hop rhizomes as you replied. Your hop senses must have been tingling 😄
thanks,just about to harvest my very First, anxiety excitement
That's amazing, let me know how it turned out!
I’m trying to figure out how to cut them down. Do you have a video talking/showing that process more? We’re growing Cascade, Comet, Crystal, Chinook, and Cenntennial in Sonoma county, Northern California. We just planted this year and missed harvesting cause of fire distractions. This was their first year and I’m not sure how to far to cut them down.
Watching this showed me the general process, which of course make me realize that you must have to cut the trellis cords every year as well, which also makes me wonder how we’re going to get new ones up without a Jenny lift.
(Clearly, we’re gonna need a much bigger ladder.)
Yeah, currently looking to make upgrades on the set up. I will upload a video next spring when I'll be cleaning the crowns. Thanks for the inquiry.
Thank you for filming this. It is very informative. I hate to admit, but I have never grow any hops. Cheers, -J.O.
Glad you enjoyed it, let me know if you'd like to grow some one day. They are soo easy and barely need attention. Cheers!
I really would like to grow some one day, just to say I did. Probably next year. Cheers, -J.O.
It's a cool to say I did. (everyone loves them)
Mine mature faster at the top so I have a carabiner at the top of the trellis line so I can take the bines up and down multiple times in order to harvest what’s ready. Or am I doing something wrong and they should all be harvested at once?
I think that's actually genius, you could wait to harvest everything at the same time but depending on how much hops you have it can be an issue to get them all in one day. I cut my harvest days over usually 3 days. This way you don't burn yourself and it gives me time to dry out the most recent harvest. Live the carabiner idea too!
Dehumifricator ! :)
Noted, I'm not using this word anymore!
Thanks for the video. Well done. I have just bought two hop plants (Green Bullet in New Zealand) I will dry them as you have. Question. When they are dry, do you use the same amount in your brew as pellet hops?
No, I don’t have the exact ratio but rule of thumb is that pellets yield approx. 10% more bitterness than whole leaf. Experiment with them since hops are also sensible to the flora and might vary in components according to where they’ve grown and also the weather. Thanks a lot for watching and keep us posted on the results!
Hops & Bros wow that was a quick response thanks again
Always a pleasure! :D
Did people get sleepy while harvesting?
good video
Thanks a lot for watching!
Are you from Québec? Just asking because of the hockey gear, but mostly because of accent
How many plants did you have
Great video. But from a contractor pov, even though having hops and vines growing on the house is a great look, they can do so much damage to home. Be careful
Yes I’ve taken the appropriate mesures so it as enough breathing space between the bines and the brick wall. Thanks a lot for the advice! 😊
You don’t really need to worry about your wall with hop bines, unlike vines they need to wrap around something to climb. You just need solid anchors bc these things can get pretty heavy
J'ai un plant de cascade qui s'en sort bien, mais j'aimerais m'ajouter une nouvelle sorte l'année prochaine. Quelle variété supporte notre climat québécois?
Nugget performe super bien ici (Outaouais) mais, je recommande aussi Triple Perle. Moins populaire mais, s'utilise bien dans les NEIPAs si tu brasses à la maison!
Merci 😀
Ça fait plaisir!
Any tips on how we should improve our hop yard production?
Hey it me again!
Trim your root /rhizome system every couple years then add some good fertilizer. Some good options are chicken manure based organics like the ones made by Espoma (Plant Tone)
Or some good compost or Kelp.
The production after the early spring trim will be a bit less, but a ton more flavor.
I also mulch the beds with wood chips to keep the moisture in the ground. And obviously they need tons of sun!
Thanks for the heads up, I'll be working a bit harder on my rhizomes next spring. I need a big upgrade for the upcoming season!
Maurizio Bussolino , what exactly do you mean by, “trim your root/ rhizome system? Do you dig around? Please say more about this. I am brand new to hop growing and I haven’t come across this instruction yet. Much abliged. 🙏💚
@@LorienF
Yes, wait until the ground thaws out(if it freezes at all) or get on it before they usually start coming out of the ground in your area. Dig a circle around the root system leaving the crown untouched and remove as much of the smallest roots (rhizomes) that spread out far from the crown. There are some videos on TH-cam as well. It is important you wait unti it's early in the season, also depending on your climate. Those roots if kept moist can re-sprout and grow into new plants.
I use a three teeth, claw like, digger and move the dirt gently. You want to leave the strongest bigger rhizomes that come off the crown. My Nugget plant after 3 years had a root system that spun over 6 ft off the crown.
Did people get sleepy while harvesting?