Homegrown Cascade
The hops have arrived! The first signs that our hop vines will have some kind of crop this year have surfaced over the past few days. It’s still not clear how much we’ll get this year, but it appears at the very least we’ll be able to have enough Cascade for dry-hopping a few batches of our Swashchuckler IPA.
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Jonathan, Joel & Jeff
June 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Nice work, dudes. I am wicked jealous.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I’ve been thinking about this, but does anyone know of a place/way to get your alpha acids determined besides just using it? Is this kind of analysis reachable to the homebrewer? Obviously the caveat here is “inexpensively.”
Oh, and congratulations!
June 13th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Sean, good question. Apparently Murphey Analytical Laboratories will do a test for you for $28. They’re out in Yakima, WA. We haven’t contacted them yet. And another thing you can do is simply “assume.” A 1997 article of Zymurgy says assuming 50% more bitterness than commercial hops is a pretty good standard. Of course, if we only use these for dry hopping we probably won’t send them off to get tested.