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Offline Steve Ruch

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Re: Comet hops
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2019, 11:44:05 am »
Onion and garlic is from harvesting too late. Tell your friend that. There are more than a few references online that support that. Comet is a nice variety otherwise.

I like onion and garlic. Not in my beer, though!
There were similar issues with summit when it first came out.
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Re: Comet hops
« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2019, 12:27:42 pm »
Onion and garlic is from harvesting too late. Tell your friend that. There are more than a few references online that support that. Comet is a nice variety otherwise.

I like onion and garlic. Not in my beer, though!
There were similar issues with summit when it first came out.

Again, related to harvest time.
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Re: Comet hops
« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2019, 02:28:31 pm »
Yep.  I had it in some, I think last year, don't recall the variety.  But it was one I never had it in before and I recall they were a tad browner than you'd expect, also indicating late harvest.  I had bought a whole pound and was bummed.   (No, of course they were not from Ted, I should know to just buy from him!)
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Re: Comet hops
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2019, 08:05:25 pm »
And I found out what a strobile is.   It's the whole thing.  "[A] reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop," says Dictionary.com;  "a spike with persistent overlapping bracts that resembles a cone and is the pistillate inflorescence of the hop," Merriam Webster.  "Pistillate inflorescence," I like that.  Keeps them coming  back to the dictionary for more!

Yes. The hop cone is not a cone like a pine cone. Not a flower either.
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Re: Comet hops
« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2019, 08:18:52 pm »
And I found out what a strobile is.   It's the whole thing.  "[A] reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop," says Dictionary.com;  "a spike with persistent overlapping bracts that resembles a cone and is the pistillate inflorescence of the hop," Merriam Webster.  "Pistillate inflorescence," I like that.  Keeps them coming  back to the dictionary for more!

Yes. The hop cone is not a cone like a pine cone. Not a flower either.
Actually it is a cluster of 60 or so flowers in the proper sense, hidden under the bracts, if I'm not mistaken.  So it really has something in common with a strawberry,  which we also easily forget is really a cluster of flowers, emerging from a burr not unlike that of the hop, and resulting in a conical, compound fruit.  Plants can be weird.
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