leaf or cone?

[Brewedout]

I want to make the theakstons op recipe from wheelers book, it says to dry hop with a few cones of styrian golding. Does this have to be in the form of cones or is leaf ok? Does anyone know where to get hold of cones? And finally if leaf is ok what is the weight equivalent for 2 cones (ish).

 

[keith1664]

Cones are what you get when you buy hops, it refers to the flowers of the hop plant.
This is what they look like fresh (sorry couldn't find a pic dried) so two of those flat is what you need. I've no idea what they weigh but it wont be a lot!

 

[Runwell-Steve]

About 10 grams of your dried hops will be perfect.

 

[Brewedout]

Thanks for the info, has anyone found anywhere which sells hop cones?

 

[Aleman]

Thanks for the info, has anyone found anywhere which sells hop cones?

LEAF HOPS AND CONE HOPS ARE THE SAME THING!!

The other two options are hop Plugs (1/2 oz compressed hop cones/leaf) which are useful for dry hopping in cask and hop pellets which are ground up hop cones/leaf hops that are then highly compressed to form 6-7mm diameter rods that get broken up. also know and type 90 or type 100 hop pellets. pellets have advantages (they store longer) and disadvantages (you loose some oils during the pelletisation process)

HTH

 

[periolus]

You can buy fresh hops ready for brewing from the Malt Miller (www.themaltmiller.co.uk), as a number of forum members do, or a range of other online suppliers.

If you want to grow your own, I was pointed in the direction of these people:

http://www.willingham-nurseries.co.uk/hop3.html

I hope this helps!

 

[Brewedout]

I blush with my ineptitude on leaf and cone.
Thanks for the heads up for the hop sources, I planned on using the malt miller but unfortunately he sold out of some of the hops I wanted. I may well grow hops at some point if only to live out the 'good life' a little more :-)