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Micro Brewers Faced With Hops Shortage to Raise Beer Prices, Alter Recipes
SUNNYSIDE, Wash. â Fans of Snipes Mountain Brewery's cloudy Hefeweizen relish the subtle wheat flavor of the bright, summery brew, and like beer drinkers everywhere, they know when their favorite brew tastes a little too hoppy or bitter.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305638,00.html
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this is rough. and with all the taxes they throw on top of beer, it gets ridiculous.
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yeah, started to see this on the homebrew font as well. A lot of hop variaties are not available in whole hops, and I imagine will not be until next growing season. Pellets I guess are stocked more and not quite as sensative to this, so a little time before it impacts that part.
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LC stogiechat homebrew gnome Wrote:yeah, started to see this on the homebrew font as well. A lot of hop variaties are not available in whole hops, and I imagine will not be until next growing season. Pellets I guess are stocked more and not quite as sensative to this, so a little time before it impacts that part.
Yeah, it's getting pretty bad. Gotta stock up while the prices arent sky high right now.
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I just got 3 lbs shipped to me and I have my name on the list for a few plants when they come out in April so I'll be able to grow my own.
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Are these plants able to grow here in NE?If so i'll grow some too.Then you'll have more hops then you know what to do with.
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Yeah they can grow here from April to Sept, but from what I understand they first year they don't produce hops, it takes 2-3 years to get a good harvest.
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Mark Wrote:Yeah they can grow here from April to Sept, but from what I understand they first year they don't produce hops, it takes 2-3 years to get a good harvest.
Where do you get the plants from?
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