Make sure you HIT the apple barrels. They are often buggy and do not always refresh your mount even if you went right next to them.
Slow down when "delivering" your barrel. It will not always deliver automatically out of your inventory and you might have to run by the tent again.
These are problems that are only sometimes happening. I had a bunch of perfect runs and then out of the blue on one toon I can't hit an apple barrel to save my life and my ram gets exhausted repeatedly. Or the stupid barrel won't deliver. I've done this enough that I know it's not operator error. And after asking in general, lots of other people are having the same issues. I took me a bit of experimenting to figure out the hops buff.
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