Charlottesville Area Masters of Real Ale

Interesting.  Maybe I’m out of the loop, but I haven’t seen hop crowns being offered before.  I got an email today from someone at Freshops alerting people that they are selling 30 year old hop crowns on eBay. 

I suppose that an old crown might fare better than a newer one, but I don’t know.  I wonder what hop variety(ies) they are putting in the ground to displace all of these….

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZfreshops

I wonder what the productive life-span of Cascades are? I'm not too sure they'd be worth it having to dig them up every week to show-off and boast as the parent of some old roots. I could take a picture and put it in my wallet I guess. That would make for interesting times. Those rhizomes did look sorta like big piles of dooky.