gotta break up a # of willamette...

[mordantly]

i don't have one of those fancy mason jar attachments to vacuum seal them yet. any ideas how i can store this pound of willamette once i open it? my fat tire has been on hold waaaaay to long now. but i don't want to waste my good hops oxidizing them. i was thinking filling the mason than pumping co2 on top of the pellets.

[Tankard]

I have some hops left over that I bought over a year ago, and they still smell and look great. I just keep them frozen in the fridge in a regular zip lock bag. You can buy one of those relatively inexpensive Reynolds food lock pump/bag combos, but they don't work nearly as well as the Food Saver systems.

[mordantly]

im gonna try to rig a check valve for the meantime...

[mr x]

I've seen people do the Mason Jar thing with hops. They seem to be happy with it.

[mordantly]

update: my metal lid with an aquarium check valve worked for no longer than an hour.. couldn't get the lid-valve to seal without some permanent means (epoxy). so i'm using freezer zip locks with a minor vacuum prior to closure with fairly good results.

[mr x]

Probably better than nothing.

[garrad21]

I usually just put them in a zip lock bag, suck all the air out, and stick it in the freezer. And by suck all the air out I mean literally zip the thing 9/10's of the way closed and suck the air out with my mouth and then close it. Yeah, it sounds stupid, but I haven't had an issue with it yet.

[mordantly]

thats how i seal every zip lock baggie... and it has been what i do with the freezer models with my hops in em.. even my first year harvest. so far so good. i haven't been able to get the adapter for mason jars at a price i want to pay, so i suck and i suck and i suck.

[peteoz77]

You SUCK! Or so I have been led to believe.....

[weave]

I roll mine really tightly in plastic food wrap, then put that into a ziplock bag. In the freezer it will keep a long time. I've had 2 yr old bags of hops kept this way that I'd forgotten about that were still nice and green and fragreant.