Recent content by brooksy

Mt Hood can be floral, cascade citrusy, I would make a summer ale type thing. Something like 6lbs pilsener, 3lbs munich, mash low for fermentability, add all of the hops after the boil and let them steep for half an hour. Hows that sound?

The rhizome does not die. It will go into dormancy till next year and that is when you can expect some hops. As for buying new rhizomes, only if you want new verieties ;)

It always takes longer for this yeast to work for me, the only time it took over 48 hours was when i rehydrated it. My theory is that it gets bad temperature shock from going to a coolish fermenter from a warmish rehydrating dish.

My experience with deer is that they love young sprouts and young leaves. The only way to deter them at my house is with chicken wire cages.

I personally would just leave it and let the root grow nice and strog for the coming years.

That is what they do when the main bine breaks, the two offshoots are now two new main bines, congrats!

No, i live out river road past the fairgrounds. Im only a few hundred feet above the river but we usually hold out our cold weather longer than in town. I certainly wouldnt say its god awful ;)

Well they have several places to drink now, but i get your point. And yes plains is in its own little banana belt as i like to say, but we still have some dramatic weather shifs, especially at the higher elevation where i live (but still not nearly as bad as you guys in the east). Still proves...

Yes sir! What type of work would you need?

Oh, and i see you are propagating your own hop verieties. If you want someone to grow a rhizome in the plains area you know who to call ;)

Haha, yeah.

Not too far from whitefish. Between whitefish and coeur d lane

Plains area.

I have yet to see the montana weather do any damage to my plants in the 4 years ive been growing, they are some tough buggers!

+1 on what halifax said. Every year i have a little pannic because my centennials sprout and start growing later and slower than the rest.