cascade hop in the uk?

[awalker]

How was Belgium, awalker? Did you make it to the Abbey of St Sixtus? When I went, I managed to meet the brewer, brother Arnold, by pure accident outside the abbey and he gave me a couple of 12's to take home with me after a fat chat. Nice old boy, I don't think they get to talk much (order of silence or something like that) except where their work is concerned.

Belgium was very nice, made it to Cantillon, the rest of Brussells and Brouwland.

Didnt go too many places as seemed to loose a lot of time in the local bars
Maybe next time

[delboy]

Lots of lovely little burrs appearing on the cascade looking forward to watching them grow over the next few weeks

[pantsmachine]

How was Belgium, awalker? Did you make it to the Abbey of St Sixtus? When I went, I managed to meet the brewer, brother Arnold, by pure accident outside the abbey and he gave me a couple of 12's to take home with me after a fat chat. Nice old boy, I don't think they get to talk much (order of silence or something like that) except where their work is concerned.

Belgium was very nice, made it to Cantillon, the rest of Brussells and Brouwland.

Didnt go too many places as seemed to loose a lot of time in the local bars
Maybe next time

Nicely done sir, did you by any chance try the bourgone de flandres in Nostre Damme? Pished in Brussels is THE way forward for the discerning cultural tourist, like what we all are.

[awalker]

How was Belgium, awalker? Did you make it to the Abbey of St Sixtus? When I went, I managed to meet the brewer, brother Arnold, by pure accident outside the abbey and he gave me a couple of 12's to take home with me after a fat chat. Nice old boy, I don't think they get to talk much (order of silence or something like that) except where their work is concerned.

Belgium was very nice, made it to Cantillon, the rest of Brussells and Brouwland.

Didnt go too many places as seemed to loose a lot of time in the local bars
Maybe next time

Nicely done sir, did you by any chance try the bourgone de flandres in Nostre Damme? Pished in Brussels is THE way forward for the discerning cultural tourist, like what we all are.

no unfortunately, maybe next time
thanks for all your advice pantsmachine, cant wait to go back

[delboy]

Fatcontroller could you tell me when you harvested your cascade last year, being from the same part of the world i'd imagine mine will be good to go at about the same time as yours, also what size do the hops grow to ie small, medium or large??
Cheers, Delboy.

[bosium]

Fatcontroller could you tell me when you harvested your cascade last year, being from the same part of the world i'd imagine mine will be good to go at about the same time as yours, also what size do the hops grow to ie small, medium or large??
Cheers, Delboy.

If it helps, mine are still very small and I'm guessing they could use another few weeks - the cones are about 15mm long or less. My cascade plant was also the last of my 6 varieties to flower.

How are yours looking?

[fatcontro11er]

delboy i harvested some of the larger ones on sat and used them green in alate hopped couple of beeers ! so long as there is plenty of lupulin at the bottom of the bracteroles and you are getting plenty of aroma from the hop when you squeeze or crush it it is useable !

[delboy]

Fatcontroller could you tell me when you harvested your cascade last year, being from the same part of the world i'd imagine mine will be good to go at about the same time as yours, also what size do the hops grow to ie small, medium or large??
Cheers, Delboy.

If it helps, mine are still very small and I'm guessing they could use another few weeks - the cones are about 15mm long or less. My cascade plant was also the last of my 6 varieties to flower.

How are yours looking?

Mine run the range from an elongated 40mm right down to little more than burrs most of them though are in the 'round hop' stage if that makes sense and are just beginning to lengthen.

[delboy]

delboy i harvested some of the larger ones on sat and used them green in alate hopped couple of beeers ! so long as there is plenty of lupulin at the bottom of the bracteroles and you are getting plenty of aroma from the hop when you squeeze or crush it it is useable !

Thanks for getting back to me FC

[fatcontro11er]

No prob , but try to wait until they are more elongated than round ! but, if they look like they are dry enough when you sqeeze them then they may be ready you have to check to see that the lupulin is plenty full , i suppose its not an exact description !sorry! but try to harvest them before they go too brown !
I have a cascade plant outside that is going from from burrs to roundish hop cones at the min ! whereas i have a smaller cascade in the polytunnel that has roun cones and my main plant is teeming with large elongated cones !
i have pics on my phone whicch i will try to upload asap !
Hope this helps !!!!!!!

[delboy]

No prob , but try to wait until they are more elongated than round ! but, if they look like they are dry enough when you sqeeze them then they may be ready you have to check to see that the lupulin is plenty full , i suppose its not an exact description !sorry! but try to harvest them before they go too brown !
I have a cascade plant outside that is going from from burrs to roundish hop cones at the min ! whereas i have a smaller cascade in the polytunnel that has roun cones and my main plant is teeming with large elongated cones !
i have pics on my phone whicch i will try to upload asap !
Hope this helps !!!!!!!

I was thinking along the same lines about waiting for the majority of them to extend out, a lot of them are starting to do just that (none of them showing signs of browning yet), i was thinking i might do a partial harvest this weekend and put them wet into a brew on the day, what sort of ratio do you use wet:dry.
Would love to see the photos, i'll try and get a pic of mine up as well, i have to say in stark contrast to the first gold i was growing the cascade seems like they are going to be full of lupin and aroma (the first gold is pure pants, virtually no aroma and v.little in the way of lupin).

[delboy]

Harvested my cascade plant last night got 2.2 Kg of hops from a single plant well chuffed with that just hope i can get them dried without going cheesy as i really want to do an all cascade beer from my own hops

[fatcontro11er]

great stuff delboy ! i put them in newspaper pockets in the hot press for no more than a week then in the freezer in the same pockets but also with a plastic bag round them and i think they are fine !

[bosium]

2.2KG? Holy crap!

Fwiw, I dried my hops on spread out on newspaper in my spare room upstairs with the window cracked open and they dried perfectly in about 5 days. Might be a little difficult to do that with 2.2KG though!!

[fatcontro11er]

heres a link to some pics i have taken this year !
http://s397.photobucket.com/albums/pp53 ... de%202010/
here there are a variety of photos from earlier in the month up till now (harvesting the hops)!
i have a bin full harvested so far and only half way througth had to employ a couple of the neighbors teenage lads to help get them picked !