• If you don't know what type they are, the only fly in the ointment is that you won't know their bittering power (usually measured in a lab as 'alpha acid' content). So I would use them as an aroma hop. Pick them on a sunny day, dry them gently, brew a simple pale ale (I brew all grain like this but you could do an extract kit), use a known hop (like fuggles, EKG, available vac-packed in small amounts) for bittering (added first in the boil), and use your home grown beauties for a massive late hop addition, possibly even some dry-hopping in the cask. Boom. Unique beer.

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