I need 700g of Citra flowers or plugs

[jeddog]

I want 700g of Citra flowers or plugs for this "Zombie Dust Ale" I'm making. I've tried Craftbrewer but they have 1 pack left of plugs. Yeah sure I could use pellet but I'm going to some flowers in my hoprocket for the late additions.

Where can I get such an amount?


jeddog

 

[Bribie G]

You want to put in the best part of a kilo of hops into one brew?

 

[slash22000]

... How big is this batch?

Probably the most "famous" Zombie Dust clone around uses 248g and even then that is a shit load.

 

[431neb]

I got some Citra from Yob.

Has he run out?

 

[jeddog]

That recipes for 5 gallon near 19 lts. I'm doing 60lts near 15 gallon.

 

[jeddog]

Has yob got a flowers?

Where do I go the get them from him?

 

[lukiferj]

http://www.hopdealzaustralia.com/

No flowers though.

 

[jlm]

Still sorta unsure on why you need that much in flowers..........That'll never fit in the hoprocket right?

 

[bum]

His website is not showing flowers at the moment. http://www.hopdealzaustralia.com

Maybe PM him here to see if he has anything sneaky not on the site. Can't hurt.

[EDIT: man, so slow!]

 

[Phoney]

Correct me if im wrong here, but isnt Citra grown in the United States? Meaning you dont have a snowballs chance in hell of getting flowers here - Unless of course you have a valid import permit.

Or are they grown in NZ / Aus?

 

[Bribie G]

If plugs are available then they can be imported. Plugs are basically compressed flowers but compressed at a pressure that would squish any dangerous insects.

 

[jeddog]

100 odd grams for the Hoprocket the rest for the kettle


Ill give Ross a call he may have more..

 

[jeddog]

What's the weight of a hop plug?

 

[Charst]

I know a brewer who picked up a 1kg of citra at keg king just last week. not sure if they have anymore.

 

[seamad]

I use pellets in a the hop rocket ( esp citra). Just pack a few SS scrubbies in and tie the pellets up in a voile bag.

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

Seriously, citra is one of the harder hops to find.

You could use a little mosaic plus galaxy to make the citra go further. Not the same, but a worthy substitute.

 

[Adam Howard]

Can get kilo bags of Citra from Keg King.

 

[jeddog]

I use pellets in a the hop rocket ( esp citra). Just pack a few SS scrubbies in and tie the pellets up in a voile bag.

Out of interest seamad, What weight of pellets you get into the Hoprocket

 

[Yob]

It's more complicated than just having an importers licence as well, American flowers need to be disposed of in a'prescribed' manner as well as I understand it... I think, if I have my info correct, one of the big players recently got a fairly large slap on the wrist from customs from importing flowers and on selling them out of regulation… extremely naughty…

I wish I could get old of plugs but sadly cannot

 

[seamad]

Out of interest seamad, What weight of pellets you get into the Hoprocket

Last brew i did with the rocket was a bit over 3g/l, about 65g.
Used ss scrubbies then 25g galaxy flowers in , then voile sack with 42g cascade pellets. Could easily fit more pellets in as they don't expand like flowers. I've found adding some flowers though does help filter a bit better than scrubbies alone. I pack the scrubbies @ the cylinder filter so that they are level to the top of it, then a layer of flowers, then the sack.
Could fit a metric shitload of pellets in this way.