First "Annual" Hop Harvest....

Yep, hops as in the ones that go into beer. We convinced Scott's parents to plant some hops (we had them drop shipped from freshops.com) and even though its only the first year we managed to rake in a good bit of a harvest. In particular from the "jumbo" Cascade rhizomes. Opted to just dry them for use later instead of trying to do a "fresh hop" brew since we're en route to the family reunion in Park City, UT.

The Cascades came out in droves - probably a good two buckets (cleaned cat litter bucket) full of them and we left a lot of smaller ones on the bine. They are on the two bottom screens on the clothes drying rack. The pile on the left top and the other screen to the right are the unknown, "Telluride" hops.

We also went up to some friends of theirs in Eckert, Colorado and picked another couple buckets of some unknown hops - Grandma is working with the CSU extension service to try and figure it out. Currently guessing either Centennial or maybe Chinook (look kind of like the Centennial's that we planted in the way of leaves, hops and smell). Theirs were several years old and the bounty there was pretty incredible - we only picked about 10-15% of what was there and still got about 4# of wet hops (figuring about 12-14 oz dried).