[denny]

First day...

[HoosierBrew]

Awesome.  Enjoy !

[dannyjed]

Nice..do you get to take some hops home?

[denny]

We'll see!  I saw literally tons of Simcoe this AM and considered trying to stuff my bag with them!  The photo os one of four selection rooms here where the brewers can evaluate hops before they order.  The blue background is traditional for assessing hop color.

[S. cerevisiae]

I know why my cones are not being analyzed! 

[erockrph]

I'd love to just float one of those bricks in a 5-gallon bucket of IPA. It must smell AWESOME over there.

[ibru]

Denny- How did you do at matching up the aromas? I didn't do very well last year...

Bruce

[HoosierBrew]

I'd love to just float one of those bricks in a 5-gallon bucket of IPA. It must smell AWESOME over there.

+ 10   

[hopfenundmalz]

I think Rodney K is there, say hi for me.

[denny]

Denny- How did you do at matching up the aromas? I didn't do very well last year...

Bruce

OK, but not great.  We just did it.  I got anout 50% of the ones I could actually smell.  It's amazing how your sense of smell diminishes as you get older.

[denny]

I think Rodney K is there, say hi for me.

He gets in later today for the homebrewer session.  I'm at the commercial session, but there's a party tonight for all of us.

[denny]

This is the experimental hop plot at Perrault Farms outside Yakima.  Home of the original Simcoe!  50K varieties, one hill of each.  About 10% will go on to testing with 7 hills each, and about 1% of those will make it to market.  Average cost of bringing a new variety to market is 5 million.

[bluesman]

Living the dream Denny! 

Have fun!

[denny]

I am indeed, Ron!  Gary Glass and John Palmer came in this evening to speak at the homebrewers sessions the next couple days..

[klickitat jim]

Geez, half of the home brewing rock stars are within an hour of my house and I'm not there. Life is just not fair