Twitter Fun with Boulevard Brewery

I've written recently about Hawksbill Hop Yards in Luray - the land I've rented to start growing hops on.  By March or so, we will build out the trellising needed to support 600 hills of hops - which will produce about 600 pounds of dried hops when the bines are mature in three years.

A coworker and I toured Boulevard Brewery in Kansas City last December (post here), and they are active on Twitter - we actually arranged our tour through that app while we were flying in from DC.  A tweet last night about their Smokestack Series caught my eye...I responded, and we had a good dialog, which follows.

“@Boulevard_Beer: Our brewers will use just shy of 750lbs of hops as they brew 600 bbls of The Calling..." Math: that's 1.2 pounds per bbl!
— Jim Turner (@cabin_jim) February 4, 2015

“@Boulevard_Beer: re: hops - my Hawksbill Hop Yards farm in Luray will only produce 600 pounds a year - enough for one of your batches!"
— Jim Turner (@cabin_jim) February 4, 2015

“@Boulevard_Beer Correct...doesn't account for dry hopping which is around 1,300 pounds for that volume.” PS I <3 your beers.
— Jim Turner (@cabin_jim) February 4, 2015