2016 Hop Harvest Totals

[thaymond]

After seeing the several people already harvesting their hops this year, I figured it was time to restart the collective HBT harvest for Summer and Fall of 2016. The previous years had great responses, and I would expect nothing less this year

If you have had an early Harvest, log your total here. Judging by the 2016 Hop Garden thread, we have some early entries. 😆

Measure your Dry Yield in oz and add it to the running total. All hop varieties are accepted, just name the variety in your post. Round to the nearest tenth. If you are estimating, use a 5:1 wet to dry ratio. Let's see how much of a harvest we get this year. In 2014, we topped at 952 dry oz. The 2015 total was 1621.88 dry oz, almost double. As always pics are encouraged.

I have several burrs and many cones on all four plants, but none ready to pick quite yet, so it will be a while before any harvest from me. Were starting a 0.0 oz.

0.0 oz.

 

[thaymond]

Got a 2.3 dry oz harvest off of Sunbeam from my plant at the parents house. I'll probably try them in a Belgian Blonde to see if the yeast will play better then US05 did in my sunbeam blonde trial. I'd like to use them more, I ended up tossing about 5 oz from 2012. I figured 4 years was long enough.

The big harvest is coming. Soon.

0 + 2.3 = 2.3 oz

 

[willy_mugobeer]

Early cones... Just cherry picking the early ripeners. Centennial .5 oz, Chinook .7 oz, Columbus (grown in Columbus!) .8 oz.

2.3 oz + 2.0 oz = 4.3 oz.

 

[thaymond]

Yikes. Slow go at it this year, I guess...

4.3 oz

 

[BaylessBrewer]

4.5oz cascade and 1oz centennial so far.
4.3 + 4.5 + 1 = 9.8 oz

 

[PapaBearJay]

I have at least a week to go yet, I don't have much on the early side.

 

[lzrdkng14]

5.2 oz cascade and 3.1 oz centennial

5.2 + 3.1 = 8.3
8.3 + 9.8 = 18.1 oz

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[BerlinsvilleBrewing]

0.5 oz of CTZ so far this year, hoping the other plants will be ready soon.

18.1 oz + 0.5 oz = 18.6 ounces

 

[thaymond]

My Chinook definitely smell like they're getting ready. I can smell the plant from the top deck. I'm busy all this week and weekend with family activities. I'll have to steal some time in the afternoons to harvest next week. A few cones are over ripe, so I don't want to wait too long.

Nugget just made cones a week ago. They have some time left to go. Zeus and Cascade have about 2 weeks left before they're good to go. I am anxiously waiting for those new cones. I only have 2 lbs left from last year's harvest! Eek!

 

[SnowcreekWI]

20oz dry Centennial from 2nd year plants, got 10oz last year. Yet to pick Cascades and Sterlings. Wet spring and summer so fought various wilts all season.

18.6 + 20 = 38.6

 

[BaylessBrewer]

4.3 oz more cascade. That's it for my first year.
38.6+4.3= 42.9
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[KennyRedman]

Here's 9 ounces of Chinook from two first-year plants.

 

[eelgerg]

3.1 dry oz of Chinook from one plant. Started with 14.2 oz wet.

42.9+9 (prev post)+ 3.1 = 55 oz
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8 more plants to pick.

 

[TandemTails]

First year cascade produced 2 ounces of dried hops. I just pulled 28 ounces off my wild neo mexicanus though so I'll be updating in a few days with the dry total for that.

55 oz + 2 oz = 57 oz

 

[TandemTails]

Just dried all of my wild New Mexico hops and ended up with 10.1 ounces (from 28.8 ounces wet)

57 + 10 = 67 oz

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Pictured a small nugget harvest from first year rhizomes- wet. Dried to .5 oz

67 + 0.5=67.5

 

[BerlinsvilleBrewing]

Harvest from my 2nd year Chinook.

67.5 ounces + 3.5 ounces = 71 ounces

 

[bowtie]

40 pounds wet Cascade, Chinook, & Nugget. Finished with 19lbs dry vacuum sealed ready for another day!

 

[thaymond]

40 pounds wet Cascade, Chinook, & Nugget. Finished with 19lbs dry vacuum sealed ready for another day!

19 lbs = 304 oz.

71oz. + 304 oz. = 375 oz.

 

[sfish]

Thaymond How much time do you spend harvesting?

32 oz of wet / 5 = 6.4 dry, harvested second year plants.

375 + 6 = 381 oz

 

[DemonsRun]

381 oz + 6.5oz dry (Cascade, more to come)

= 387.5

 

[eelgerg]

3.2 oz of unknown (guessing cascade) from 13.9 oz wet

387.5 + 3.2 = 390.7

 

[SnowcreekWI]

33oz cascade & 4oz sterling, both down from last year due to wilts.

= 427.7

 

[thaymond]

Thaymond How much time do you spend harvesting?

32 oz of wet / 5 = 6.4 dry, harvested second year plants.

375 + 6 = 381 oz

I wonder if youre really asking bowtie. He had the 19 lb dry yield. My sunbeam took 20-30 minutes. It was only about 10 Oz wet.

Once I get to my hop cage and can harvest, it will take about an hour to an hour and a half per plant. So roughly 4 to 6 hours. I have it slated for Sunday.

Still 427.7 oz. We're about 1200 oz. Short of beating last years harvest.

 

[bowtie]

Thaymond How much time do you spend harvesting?

32 oz of wet / 5 = 6.4 dry, harvested second year plants.

375 + 6 = 381 oz

If you meant Bowtie? It took me three days of off and on picking with some drying in between. Then another two days of drying after all picked. This is my drying method.

Laundry bag on top of a box fan with 2x4 legs to hold it off the table

 

[corkybstewart]

7 oz's Cascade=434.7, about 1.5 oz mixed Centennial, Neomexicanus and Magnum=436.2.
I checked mine at lunch, they've gone ape**** with all the rain we've had so I expect a record harvest this fall.

 

[MSAstoria]

Finally packaged the last of them:

Cascade 27.75
Centennial 11.25
Chinook 42.75
Mt. Hood 9.5
Sterling 13.4
Fuggle 4.25

108.9 oz. total.

436.2 + 108.9 = 545.1 oz.

 

[willy_mugobeer]

Approx 9 oz Columbus, 2.5 oz chinook and 1.5 oz cascade so far, lots more to come.

545.1 + 13 = 558.1 oz.

 

[Dr_Beersgood_Quaffenstein]

8 oz. Centennial
2 oz. Zeus
44 oz. Cascade
21 oz. Chinook.

558.1+75= 633.1
For a total of 75 oz. dry this season.

 

[Sourz4life]

30 oz Cascade, 20 OZ East Kent Goldings, 30 oz Willamette. 80 oz in total. 633.1 + 80 = 713.1

 

[thaymond]

:beer:

 

[thaymond]

30 oz Cascade, 20 OZ East Kent Goldings, 30 oz Willamette. 80 oz in total. 633.1 + 80 = 713.1

Here's the dry take for the year.
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Chinook 20.2 oz
Nugget 17.6 oz
Zeus 27.5 oz
Cascade 17.8 oz

Total 83.1 oz dry

Friend in KC reported from plants I sent him...not bad for first year.

Chinook 4.5 oz
Zeus 7.1 oz
Nugget 2.5 oz

Total 14.1 oz dry

713.1 + 83.1 + 14.1 = 810.3 dry oz

Now the fridge is full again!
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Sorry for the potato quality.

Keep 'em coming?

 

[Ben58]

112 oz of Cascade. ( 7 lbs ) Dry.
+810.3 = 922.3

 

[ba-brewer]

992.3 + 37 = 1029.3


9oz cascade(3yr in pot)
4oz columbus(3yr in pot)
3oz chinook(3yr in pot)
4oz cutting#1
3oz cutting#2
6oz cutting#3
3.5oz cutting#4
1.5oz cutting#5
2oz cutting#6
1oz cutting#7
cutting were taken summer of 2015, labels fell off over the winter so not sure what is what yet
1,3,4,7 pretty sure are cascade. 2,5,6 chinook or brewers gold

 

[corkybstewart]

1.2 ozs of Cascade=1030.5

 

[nagmay]

Finally bagged and tagged the cones from our experimental hop yard. They were all picked by hand (it took forever!). Learn more about our homebrew hop breeding program

371.3oz (23lbs) of experimental = 1401.8

Might be time for a bigger freezer

 

[DarkCoder]

371.3oz (23lbs) of experimental = 1401.8

Might be time for a bigger freezer

...or an industrial kettle to brew more beer !

 

[thaymond]

Finally bagged and tagged the cones from our experimental hop yard. They were all picked by hand (it took forever!). Learn more about our homebrew hop breeding program

371.3oz (23lbs) of experimental = 1401.8

Might be time for a bigger freezer

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Holy cow. If you ever need objective results from your breeding program, I'm sure you have plenty of people who would jump at the chance to take one of those experimental bags off of your hands.

1401.8

 

[Calder]

Second year plants (dry weight):

Cascade - 19.5 ozs
Chinook - 7 ozs
Centennial - 2.5 ozs
Willamette - 0 ozs .... I actually got 0.15 ozs, vs nothing in year 1. Not sure why I am keeping this plant!

Total = 29 ozs

1401.8 + 29 = 1430.8

 

[thaymond]

Second year plants (dry weight):

Cascade - 19.5 ozs
Chinook - 7 ozs
Centennial - 2.5 ozs
Willamette - 0 ozs .... I actually got 0.15 ozs, vs nothing in year 1. Not sure why I am keeping this plant!

Total = 29 ozs

1401.8 + 29 = 1430.8

I also canned my Willamette. She just didn't care for the Midwest climate.