That’s why you freeze them immediately if you can’t process immediately. Loss to mold or rot is virtually eliminated.
Here’s a bit of info on the process.
https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/what-is-live-resin-cannabis-concentrate
I'm guessing you don't know a lot about commercial hop production. Freezing them until use is completely impractical.
I’m guessing you’re not good at guessing.
You would only freeze what you plan on turning into the extract.
I'm guessing you've been doing a good job of celebrating 4/20.
Denny is right about the impracticality of freezing hops at the commercial scale. The industry isn't set up for that - at least not at this point in time. Hops are a crop with a very brief harvest season, and many of the farms share harvesting and processing equipment through cooperatives. It's not like we're talking about a few chest freezers here. Large commercial-scale flash freezers would probably be needed. There probably isn't a reasonable return on investment for that - at least not yet.
Once again you only freeze what becomes concentrates. You could start with a couple hundred pounds capacity for a small trial basis, before you scale up if it works well.
It’s being done all day every day right now with a genetic relative of the hop plant. They make industrial flash freezers... people said the same thing about supercritical CO2 extractors before the entire industry adopted them. The economics are there, if the product is superior! A third party could even contract wet hops at a discount and do the extraction as their value added piece. Get contracts from all the regions and do it all year round. Markets evolve, guys.
If brewers can get flavor and aroma (assuming it’s the desirable) out of an extract along with bitterness and all of the benefits of the current concentrates, then they won’t be able to keep it in stock.
Glad they timestamp these posts.
Oh, and I have a medical condition, bro... it’s not a celebration, but thanks anyway.