Hi,
My dad found some wild hops, he dried them for me, should I now store them in a jar or freezer bag? In the fridge or the freezer?
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Re: Hop Storage
The colder the better, the less air exposure the better, either purged or vacuum.
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One more thing ....minimize exposure to daylight and fluorescent light.
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Re: Hop Storage
Liverdance told me about purging a 2l pop bottle and ising that to store.
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Re: Hop Storage
GAM wrote:Liverdance told me about purging a 2l pop bottle and ising that to store.
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What do you mean by purge? Squeeze an empty bottle?
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Re: Hop Storage
I use a carbonator cap on the pop bottles to purge out oxygen with co2, but i only do this with pellet hops. With wild hops you would be fine using a freezer bag with the air squeezed out and storing them in the freezer.
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Re: Hop Storage
Thanks. I will put then to good use in due time
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Re: Hop Storage
Great idea!LiverDance wrote:I use a carbonator cap on the pop bottles to purge out oxygen with co2, but i only do this with pellet hops. With wild hops you would be fine using a freezer bag with the air squeezed out and storing them in the freezer.
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