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This Years Harvest ~ Large Sealed Bag
Golden Nugget Beer Hops
Organically Grown ~ Sun Dried
This large bag contains about 4 cups (Approx 1 oz.) of fresh whole Hops cones. These are similar to the nugget style, but have been cross bred with a Gold variety to create a unique “Golden Nugget”. High Alpha (from 10 to 11.5 Typical of Nugget Hops) combined with the sweet aroma enhancement & robust flavor enrichment characteristic of the Golden varieties. These are from organically grown vines on the Illinois Wisconsin border on a windy hilltop. Here is a shot of them on the vine before harvest. 
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Hand tended and hand harvested at exactly the right time for maximum pollen with a minimum of chlorophyll. We hand harvest over a period of two weeks so each cone is picked at exactly the right time! That’s why they are not dark green. We wait for the growing period of chlorophyllation to stop and recede, so there is no “green” taste, but pick them before the flower cone can start to bud open and lose pollen so we have maximum amounts of the bitters and flavor and aroma enhancement from the Golden dust pollen or Gold Lupulin Glands inside. Proper timing of harvest makes for the best crop.
Note the photo at the bottom of the page. Look closely and you can see the bright golden powder sticking to the inside of the bag! We dehydrate dry them naturally on screens, inside an air conditioned room, behind glass, in direct sunlight for several days to a low hydration point. They are extremely light in weight, and heavy with the flowers Golden Lupulin pollen. About 4 cups weigh only about 1 ounce. Hermetically sealed in plastic. We are not brewers or even drinkers of beer! We are farmers with a reputation of quality hops! We have a very limited amount of these each year and they are coveted by the upscale home brewers who seek the best ingredients.
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