Irene

[NomadicScribe]

Hop vines are the magical plant from which the most essential flavoring in beer are derived!

The Oatmeal explains, like nobody else can:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/beer

Also, I'm in Arlington, VA. The hurricane brought us nothing more than some extra rain. Glad I don't live in Hampton Roads anymore!

[danooli]

So thanks for the pics!

My pleasure 

[Gamercow]

[pedant]actually, they're bines, not vines.[/pedant]

Those are good looking hops, danooli, what variety are they?  I picked all my hops before the hurricane came, just in case.  It was probably a good idea, because I lost many leaves on many plants.

Anyway, we got about 7" of rain here, and some decent winds.  A LOT of people in Mass are still out of power. 

[Talia]

A lot of people in CT are still out of power as well. The power company wasn't really ready to deal with this widespread an outage, I guess.

[Spindaddy]

So I just got power and the internet back. I'm pretty sure I just got blindsided by the kharma bus.

[danooli]

[pedant]actually, they're bines, not vines.[/pedant]

Those are good looking hops, danooli, what variety are they? 

I've never even heard the word "bine"  cool.  I like learning things, even if spell check thinks "bine" isn't a word.  (I will admit that I checked wikipedia just to be sure.)

As to what type they are, I can't say for sure.  My husband has a separate area for the hops he uses for brewing.  He started with a bunch of different varieties and is now only growing Cascade to use in his brews.  He took rhizomes from the other types and planted them in random places in the backyard.  We think these are the Magnum because they're just so huge.  There's also Centennial, Willamette, Millennium...I think there are other varieties too, but I can't remember them.  I like the way the hops and bines look.

[Gamercow]

Guard your Centennial well, Budweiser is buying up huge swaths of them for their new "ales".  Amarillo, too, I think.  I wouldn't be surprised if they were Magnum, those suckers are BIG.

[kibitzer]

As to what type they are, I can't say for sure.  My husband has a separate area for the hops he uses for brewing.  He started with a bunch of different varieties and is now only growing Cascade to use in his brews.  He took rhizomes from the other types and planted them in random places in the backyard.  We think these are the Magnum because they're just so huge.  There's also Centennial, Willamette, Millennium...I think there are other varieties too, but I can't remember them.  I like the way the hops and bines look.

Is that Cascade as in, the Tasmanian brewery? (this threatens to be a separate forum thread!)

[Planish]

I picked all my hops before the hurricane came, just in case.  It was probably a good idea, because I lost many leaves on many plants.

I lost 50% of my apple crop.

That was one of two apples, on a single tree that is barely 3' high. Fortunately, it was the small scabby one.

[danooli]

As to what type they are, I can't say for sure.  My husband has a separate area for the hops he uses for brewing.  He started with a bunch of different varieties and is now only growing Cascade to use in his brews.  He took rhizomes from the other types and planted them in random places in the backyard.  We think these are the Magnum because they're just so huge.  There's also Centennial, Willamette, Millennium...I think there are other varieties too, but I can't remember them.  I like the way the hops and bines look.

Is that Cascade as in, the Tasmanian brewery? (this threatens to be a separate forum thread!)

I'm not sure about the Tasmanian brewery, but I think Cascade is a pretty popular variety of hops