The Hops in the Freezer!

[WishboneBrewery]

This is the Stock of the Hop Chest Freezer in the garage

My current list is as follows:

• Admiral
  Amarillo
  Bobek
  Brewers Gold
  Cascade
  Centennial (about 700g)
  Challenger
  Chinook
  Citra
  Columbus
  Crystal
  East Kent Golding
  First Gold (400g)
  Golding
  Green Bullet
  Herkules
  Hersbrucker
  Home grown Fuggle
  Mittlefruh
  Motueka
  Nelson Sauvin
  Northdown
  Northern Brewer
  Pacific Gem
  Perle
  Pioneer
  Rakau
  Riwaka
  Saaz
  Simcoe
  Sticklebract
  Target
  Tettnang

Total weight is over 3.6Kg

erm! is that, like, T H I R T Y T H R E E (33) varieties of hops! (updated and current as of 6th Feb 2011)

[trucker5774]

Time for some longer brews me thinks I'm heading the same way with lots of part packs...............called my last brew "hop along" due to the mix of hops in it!

[WishboneBrewery]

I suppose I'll end up sooner or later with a 'user-upper' brew

[trucker5774]

I have just done 2 brews.............at ech end of the colour range.
The lighter one used fuggles for "bittering" with a big finish of cascase late on.
The dark end was "guinness" using just target.

[OldSpeckledBadger]

I've got 3 types:

Fuggles (nearly 1kG)
Challenger
Goldings

I can brew nearly all the beer I want to brew with those. Might get some Northdown at some point to do a Tanglefoot clone. Thought about getting some Styrians to do a Burton Bridge Golden Delicious but having tried the real thing I found the taste of Styrians rather unpleasant so I'll use ordinary Goldings if I brew that for next summer.

[Eadweard]

Styrians are my favourite, I urge you to reconsider.

[196osh]

Off the top of my head I have:

Herkcules
Glacier
Amarillo
Bravo
Liberty

So nothing on you, but...

I hope to get some:

Cascade
Centential
Saaz
Styrian Goldings

For future brews, and mabye some Simcoe....

[steve_flack]

Ahem, currently I have

Saaz
Hersbrucker
Mittlefruh
Northern Brewer
Cascade (NZ and US)
Green Bullet
Nelson Sauvin
Pacifica
Styrians
Boadicea
Challenger
Golding
Amarillo
Centennial
Chinook
Columbus
Horizon
Magnum
Liberty
Mount Hood
Santiam
Sterling
Warrior

Apart from goldings (which I'm starting to run low on) - I'm not buying any hops for a while.... oh and maybe some Riwaka and Motueka as I just made a cracking beer with those two.

[garwatts]

Thank god I'm not alone
It's a bit like stamp collecting

I currently have
W.G.V
US Golding
Fuggles
Styrians
Challenger
Cascade
Pioneer
Pilot
Bravo
Williamette
Admiral
Liberty
Glacier
Herkules
Chinook
Bramling Cross

But I am resisting the urge for further purchases at the moment
Perhaps we could start a 'hop buyers' anonymous group and should one of us feel the overpowering desire to purchase more we could ring a help line to get some counselling?

Or perhaps just get and brew more beer

[DarloDave]

Cascade (NZ and US)

Is there much difference between the two?

[mysterio]

I would think so... look what happened when they took a Fuggle to Slovenia

[DarloDave]

True, I currently have Styrians, Liberty, Hersbrucker, EKG, Challenger, Nelson Sauvin, Southern Cross, Amarillo, Magnum, Perle.

[steve_flack]

Cascade (NZ and US)

Is there much difference between the two?

There is a bit of a difference but they're more similar than the Argentine Cascade (actually I've got those as well) - the argie cascade are pretty different.

[ChrisG]

here's my stock

Goldings 130g
Fuggles 113g
Challenger 88g
Cascade 105g
Aurora 113g
Saaz 472g
First Gold 50g
Amarillo 61g
Progress 100g
Crystal 100g
Hallertauer Hersbrucker 200g

[softlad]

So it really is ok to have what some may call a hop problem then ?

Current stock is :

Amarillo
Boadicea
Cascade
Centenniel
Challenger
Fuggles
EKGs
Hallertauer Hersbruker
Lublin
Magnum
Maryanka
Nelson Sauvin
Northdown
Northern Brewer
Progress
Saaz
Styrians
Target
WGV

I've recently made a beer using up some dog ends of styrians, amarillo and EKGs which has turned out really well, especially considering that it was brewed to tidy up my stock