Yakima Valley Hops Sale

dannyboy58 2019-03-19 12:57:43 UTC #1

Yakima Valley has some of their 2018 hops on sale for pretty good prices right now. Got a couple 1 lb bags of centennial for $10 each.

Anyone ever use LD Carlson hops? I don't know if they rebrand or what but when I brewed Sunday I opened a new bag of centennial from them and it was mostly dust. Very upset about it because I can't remember where I got the hops.

brewmanchu 2019-03-19 13:14:13 UTC #2

Never used the LD Carlson. I mostly buy from YVH and also got up on that Centennial sale.

dannyboy58 2019-03-19 14:24:55 UTC #3

Yea me too. Occasionally I'll grab something off Amazon if YVH doesn't have what I need, or at the LHBS if I need it right away. I may have picked these up at my LHBS...nothing recent in my Amazon history.

brew_cat 2019-03-19 18:41:57 UTC #4

I ordered centennial hops from Bells and that's what they sent. They were good in the 2 heart and resilience. The only thing was they didn't have a date on the bag but when I ordered them I think they said 2017. The resealable bag is nice

loopie_beer 2019-03-19 23:50:51 UTC #5

Damnit! I don’t need any but I know how this usually turns out. I just scored a a 7gal spike unitank off craigslist for absolutely no reason... now I have two 7gal Conicals and two 14gal Conicals. Small production brewery?
I do admit I have a problem.

sneezles61 2019-03-20 10:12:30 UTC #6

You are such a hoarder Loopie! Sneezles61

radagast 2019-03-20 12:17:30 UTC #7

Clearly, you have a problem Loopie. Let me help you with your problem, go ahead and ship your spare 7 gallon conicals to me and I'll get them out of your hair, I'll even pay for freight!!

loopie_beer 2019-03-20 14:11:47 UTC #8

@sneezles61 sometimes it feels that way!

Radagast I never said I wouldn’t use them... just that I didn’t need it. Guess I’ll have to brew more!

sneezles61 2019-03-21 00:45:11 UTC #9

You 2... group hug... after many quaffable brews though! Sneezles61

brewmanchu 2019-04-15 22:01:21 UTC #10

So I'm hop shopping at the moment and I went to check out and noticed the cheapest shipping price is $17.31 via FedEx. This seems a bit inflated from previous orders and maybe that's why so many varieties are "on sale" as well. Now I'm looking elsewhere

brew_cat 2019-04-15 23:16:05 UTC #11

That's crazy

brewmanchu 2019-04-15 23:32:36 UTC #12

I emailed them about it and it's inflated due to the whole leaf hops I had in my cart. May have to cancel them now

dannyboy58 2019-04-15 23:36:16 UTC #13

The super sale hops are all 2016 crops too.

brew_cat 2019-04-15 23:58:39 UTC #14

Why do whole hops require extra shipping cost?

sneezles61 2019-04-16 00:52:53 UTC #15

So you don't squish them? Sneezles61

brewmanchu 2019-04-16 09:32:42 UTC #16

Because they are bulkier and can't fit into their flat rate envelopes apparently.

brew_cat 2019-04-16 11:55:15 UTC #17

I don't know how many pound your ordering but that's rediculous. The need to find a better shipping company or build the shipping into the price. Some home brew suppliers are getting gready in my opinion. Plenty options out there.

barbarianbrewer 2019-04-16 18:40:04 UTC #18

It's not the shipping company. That's just how much shipping costs. I checked YVH site and found that shipping one pound of leaf hops to my house costs $17.00 for USPS and $14.50 for FedEx.

dannyboy58 2019-04-16 18:42:41 UTC #19

Not everyone can give away shipping like amazon does. Some companies, especially smaller ones, actually have to pay taxes.

barbarianbrewer 2019-04-16 19:00:12 UTC #20

Like everything else economies of scale affect pricing. So, to remove contract pricing from the equation I checked FedEx, UPS and USPS sites and found variance of only 88 cents between them.