On Sunday, I harvested all the hop cones that grew on the bines since the first harvest in July. I didn’t expect there would be two rounds of harvesting this year but I am not complaining.

The cones are currently drying right now. I plan to bag them up and weigh them tonight to see what kind of yield I got this year.

UPDATE!

With the two harvests, I collected 5 ounces of homegrown Magnum hops in total this year. That is a 300% increase as compared to last year. Maybe we can see that same year over year growth in 2012?  We will certainly try.

Harvesting Hops 2011 Dried Hop Cones Dried Hops with Lupulin Close-up

Mmmmm….Lupulin… Bring on the Harvest Ale Brew Session!