Ottawa: Free fresh Hops off-the-vine (pickup only)

iguenard · Post by **iguenard** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:05 am

Attention homebrewers. Grew some hops again this year, and sadly due to time constraints, will not be able to harvest/brew my annual fresh-hop harvest ale.

If your in the Ottawa region, your more than welcome to come pick up the following:

- Roughly 2 lbs of cascade
- Roughly 200g of organic Halletauer
- Roughly 300g of Chinook
- Roughly 500g of Fuggles

Its on the fascade of my house looking mighty ripe. All I ask in return is some of your homebrew including if possible the one you'll do with the abovementioned hops

PM if interested. Pickup would need to be this week to avoid spoilage.

iguenard · Post by **iguenard** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:27 pm

The hops has been claimed. Thanks all..

inertiaboy · Post by **inertiaboy** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:18 am

I'm guessing that you won't be needing my hops this year then

So for those who were interested in Ian's crop, I will offer up my hops this year as well. I have:

- 200-300g of dry Cascade from a friend's harvest this week
- 1.2+ kg of Cascade
- 300-400g of Willamette
- 100-200g each of Golding, Nugget, Centennial, Chinook, and Zeus (like Columbus)

Except for the dry cascade, everything is still wet on the bines and is ready to be cut down this weekend. The Golding and Nugget are intermixed with the Cascade and Willamette so you may not be able to separate them.

For comparison, this is a little less than what I got last year. That harvest filled two 18 litre work buckets from Home Depot.

Send me a message and we can arrange a pickup time and I can give helpful hints.

iguenard · Post by **iguenard** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:12 am

Actually, if your hops is dry, I'll take it.

Reason I gave mine away is mostly I didnt have time to harvest and dry. Could still do an IPA with dry hops.

inertiaboy · Post by **inertiaboy** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:25 pm

Hi Ian,

I now have the harvest from gardens of two friends, probably about 400g now. I'll set those aside for you. I'll see if I can get some of the others off and dried as well.

The wet Cascade is likely too large for me to get to, as possibly is the Willamette. They are still looking for a good home.

inertiaboy · Post by **inertiaboy** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:48 pm

My hops have all found good homes now. I'm looking forward to having them drop by for a visit in a few weeks

General Ivolgin · Post by **General Ivolgin** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:20 pm

I too have a wall full of hops if anyone is interested. I'm in west central Ottawa and would be happy to give them away to anyone who would use them. One problem: I don't know what kind of hops they are. Just let me know if you'd like to have a look or just take them away.

General Ivolgin