poor weather hits hop crops

[Graham]

To be honest, it wouldn't make any difference, hop shortage or not. The bigger breweries are always buggering around with their hop varieties and ratios to take advantage of market prices, alpha-acid variations, age and the like. They blend on a rolling basis so that there is not a sudden change in the beer that punters would detect, but you can't guarantee from one week to the next what varieties are actually in the beer. Commercial brewers are far more pragmatic about hops than home brewers.

[trisers]

Speaking with my gardeners hat on I would imagine they would layer well?

In other words, take one of the stems and lay it horizontally, pin it securely with pieces of bent wire pushed into the ground at a leaf node and cover with a little soil or potting compost at that point. It helps if you wound or 'nick' the stem at that point too. Leave it undisturbed until the shoot starts growing next year the cut from the parent plant