Purchasing hops online

[temptnmonkey]

When buying hops from some of the online retailers (like farmhouse brewing for instance), they mention 2010 (I assume crop year).

Is it a bad idea to purchase hop pellets of this age? Or does it not matter?

I know the alpha acids degrade over time, but it does say "current alpha acids".

I just want to make sure I'm still getting my money's worth ordering hops from 2010, since I don't have much experience yet! Thanks everyone!

 

[apparatus]

Pellet hops store well. Farmhouse brewing is very reputable and wouldn't sell sub par supplies. I however, would not order any more than I plan to use in the next couple of months as the fresh pack will
be coming out soon.

 

[temptnmonkey]

Ok, cool. Thanks for the advice!

 

[stevedasleeve]

...the fresh pack will
be coming out soon.

And I bet the very popular hops for craft beer: Amarillo and Citra etc. are going to be whisked away and almost immediately out of stock by the zillions of new micro/nano breweries again.

My latest strategy is to be formulating great brews using the more common and more available hops like Cascade and Willamette etc. since I bet I won't be able to get those later or maybe even at all this year.

 

[samcady1]

as long as their stored in vacuum sealed bags or air tight containers they'll last a while, i cracked a 3 year old mason jar full of willamette and there was no difference.