[reverseapachemaster]

Looking at old brewing logs it appears that English brewers often used hops that were several years old. I recently saw a recipe from 1953 and the log stated that one of the bittering hops used was from the 1950 crop.

You can go back centuries in English brewing literature and see the recommendation to use older hops by themselves or in combination with new harvest hops. Lots of recommendations to wait to use the new harvest until at least the end of spring. Usually this was advised if the brewer felt the hops were too rough although it isn't clear if that means too bitter or the flavor.

[Hooper]

Throwing away sealed pounds of hops seems crazy to me...but hey...I grew up lower middle class and we didn't throw good stuff away. YVH sells 1 and 2 year old hops at discount...I agree, I'd be pissed if I bought hops and didn't know they were old and they were old...but I've bought some of these and they've been fine...