Recent content by hopmomma

Hey folks! I recently got married and my husband (the master brewer) and I had a bit of a brewing themed wedding. Here's some favors/table toppers I did. They were a huge hit. I made the cake topper from a piece of dowel wrapped in clay. I cut all the bottles myself and grew the forget me not...

We are in the middle of making some brews for our wedding. We already have a few manly beers (rye ipa and smoked pale ale) but I'm whipping up something a little girlie for us lady-drinkers. We are doing two batches of fruit beer. One will be blueberry/cherry cream ale but I'd like to try making...

Personally, I would recommend not using extract for the cherries. 1-4 lbs per gallon in secondary. I use frozen cherries from the grocery store. Just defrost, smash a little bit before you add. Also. I add vanilla extract or bean at primary so i can add more if necessary to secondary. I actually...

Trumer pills....yuck

Thanks so much for the ideas!

Natural food stores have them, you should also be able to find them in your common grocery store in the spices section. Little more costly this way though. (2 for $15)

After washing all of the equipment, I was ready to transfer and dry hop an ipa. You could imagine my surprise when I stepped outside and found ten gallons of delicious beer frozen solid! For shame! So what do I do now? They were done primary fermenting before they froze. I opened the door of...

I live in the bay area of California and we have had very cool summer here. Much cooler than the rest of the u.s. anyways. I have two hop varieties, Willamette an Chinook. Both are "first years". So my willametter only put out an ounce of dry hops. Then stopped producing about a month ago. My...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f78/vanilla-caramel-cream-ale-23680/ this recipe is slightly vague as to when to add the lactose and vanilla. we added the lactose at secondary with only 2 oz of vanilla, not 4. note: for us, we noticed that too long in the bottles made the vanilla fade. so it was...

Its an all grain recipe, ill post it here tomorrow.

I've already constucted and brewed a brown ale recipe that uses both Willamette and chinnook so that after I harvest i have something to brew. Im always trying to incorporate the hops I grow into a beer recipe. Such as the recipe I designed last night for using only Chinook. I was amazed when...

I was amazed at how much they look like Willamette. See.

Centennials look good! When picking by feel. If the hop gives under pressure it's ready. It it still feels really solid when pinched, give it a little longer. Or let the hop barely start to brown. I have to go out and get my first Willamette haves picked today.

I would have picked them off a little sooner but the taste and smell and lupulin output is the important factor. Just used 3oz homegrown Chinook in a brew and the smell was amazimg! I haven't picked up a vacuum sealer yet but the hops held well in the freezer for a week at least.

I haven't tried the screens yet. I've not gotten enough to fill the dehydratir yet. Let me know what you chose to do