Hi everyone,
I just wanted to put the feelers out there to see if anyone would be interested in a group buy on a hop that sounds pretty interesting and is grown exclusively at a hop farm in the US.
I'm going to Canada in March and have been looking at Americna sites to see if I can get anything while over there. That's when I came across this.
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2015 HARVEST
Alpha Acid 9.4%
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A 20kg box is $440 US and shipping to my address is $278.60 US (!!!). I have sent them an email to query this amount (as it was high for 1lb bags too), but I suspect its quick shipping to preserve the hops.
The landed cost will be just under $1000 AUD to my door. So basically, it's $50 per kg or $25 per 1/2 kg. If we could get 20 in QLD who can pick up that would be ideal, but let's see where this goes and we can see about shipping interstate from there. I personally don't have a vacuum sealer to re-portion the entire lot.
Let'er rip!
I just wanted to put the feelers out there to see if anyone would be interested in a group buy on a hop that sounds pretty interesting and is grown exclusively at a hop farm in the US.
I'm going to Canada in March and have been looking at Americna sites to see if I can get anything while over there. That's when I came across this.
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2015 HARVEST
Alpha Acid 9.4%
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Dual-Purpose variety
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Hops Direct, LLC and Puterbaugh Farms is excited to introduce a
brand new and very unique hop of our very own.
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Over the past few years we have nurtured and developed a
NEW hop variety "Belma™"exclusively grown here
at Puterbaugh Farms.
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Dr. Shellhammer from OSU tested Belma™ and created
a Pale Ale Malt. He noted the following description:
A very clean hop, with a very orange, slight grapefruit,
tropical pineapple, strawberry, and melon aroma.
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As this is a very new variety, we welcome customer feedback
and encourage you to write a review, below.
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Grown exclusively at Puterbaugh Farms.
A 20kg box is $440 US and shipping to my address is $278.60 US (!!!). I have sent them an email to query this amount (as it was high for 1lb bags too), but I suspect its quick shipping to preserve the hops.
The landed cost will be just under $1000 AUD to my door. So basically, it's $50 per kg or $25 per 1/2 kg. If we could get 20 in QLD who can pick up that would be ideal, but let's see where this goes and we can see about shipping interstate from there. I personally don't have a vacuum sealer to re-portion the entire lot.
Let'er rip!