Group hop buy?

[UpTheToon]

Received! Many thanks.

[jaroporter]

got mine 'bout an hour ago. bag slightly split and scent coming out from it was exciting! cheers for this

[bquiggerz]

Mines been received, surprised with how how well it is vac packed. What machine do you have?

[jaroporter]

should clarify it was the packing bag that had come a little apart in transit. vacpacking was fine

[demig]

OMG how good do the packing bags smell Mines arrived, thanks very much for sorting this

[Mashman]

Arrived today, very well sealed.

Many thanks

February ............?

[injac]

Mine are here too. Cheers for this mate.

[bochgoch]

Some dodgy looking fella just walked down my drive and handed me a package - cheers phatboy, get your finger out for the next one

[Jonnyconga]

Mine arrived yesterday - all good. Thanks!

[phatboytall]

haha glad they have all arrived safe. I wish you could have all smelt what those silver bags smelt like when they were full of 5kgs of hops!

The vac packer I use is this one, i'd recommend it highly to anyone.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00JB9K4RA/r ... B5VNXVB557

Hope everyone is well stocked now! Its a lot of hardwork running one of those so I really do appreciate the positive responses, thanks, and enjoyment factor from other forum members. The wife thinks i'm mad for doing it, but women dont understand the power of hops

I reckon i've got one more group buy in me, then I should have enough hops to retire for a year or so. But that depends on what 2015 hops are available to us mear not contracted mortals. Apparently the 2015 hops come available in January, it maybe the case that there isnt anything much more than English hops and Cascade available outside of contract (brewers use 3/4 year contracts to buy up in advance).

I think the harvest year is key. The guy at the hop merchant was adamant it didn't make any difference (and I trust him, nice chap). However if i'm honest I was overwhelmed how fresh the 2015 Magnum hops smelt, and slightly underwhelmed how the 2013 Athanum hops smelt compared to say the 2014 Cascade. Will be interested to see what other people think, i'm sure he is right and they are all great. But from here on in i'm only doing super fresh 2015 hops I reckon.

I will post back here in January when we know whats available, hopefully there will be some interesting stuff for us, otherwise it might just be more Cascade all round!!

Enjoy your hops people! And thanks again for the support.

[Wonkydonkey]

Although the athumum hops may not smell much,
but when you brew with them, but most importantly the beer has had a bit of time to condition, I think you will be very impressed, I know I have.

[phatboytall]

Although the athumum hops may not smell much,
but when you brew with them, but most importantly the beer has had a bit of time to condition, I think you will be very impressed, I know I have.

Good advice thanks! If I had to judge hops on smell alone Columbus would be the stand out winner, really powerful big dry hop ipa smell to them, loved it! Clearly its not that simple!

[macca01]

Late responding but all hops received safe and well packed. thanks.

[sbond10]

If you do it again I could be interested in either magnum cascade junga celicia more so if they could be in 250g blocks as well as 500g.

Maybe and this is just me thinking out loud a 1kg hop combo pack 4 variety s for one price including postage ?

[phatboytall]

Thats a fair shout.

Once the 2015 hops are released in Jan I will know what is available. But the idea of a combo pack of a few packs might work for people.

Thanks
Ed