Recent content by jim_reaper1066

Awesome, I think I'll buy some new larger pots and dig up one of the root balls this weekend.

im in the same boat. I had hops growing in 4 gallon pots last year and they really took off, got almost 1 lb of cones from first year growth! I was thinking about cutting off some rhizomes, but was wondering when is the best time to start chopping? Before or after shoots start to break the surface?

Last year I planted hops in 4 gallon pots, and grew them on my balcony. They received plenty of sunlight, and required near daily watering. By the end of the season I harvested mabey 1/2 lb of cones from each plant, not a bad haul when starting from rhizomes. I left them to overwinter on my...

Do you have a private account with Fisher, or are you part of a university/research company? Our club is looking to do a big glass order for starter making, and everyone is really jealous of the 3000ml E-flask I borrowed from the lab.

Good call on the 90-min boil, but it turns out that I wont be using pilsner anymore. When I got home I found a full bag of MO I had forgotten about hidden in a corner.

So I just put on my yeast starter for my Black IPA and realized that I used the last of my 2-row and MO in my Stone Runination clone a few days ago. All I have left is lots of Bohemian Pilsner malt. Is there any downside to using Pilsner for my base grain? (aside from not being able to use it in...

So in an attempt to hurry up the process, I racked my DFH60 clone to a keg and dry hopped in the keg. No hopbag, just loose pellets. After letting it sit for a while I hooked it up to the lines, and nothing would pour out! No foam, no little spurts of beer. The gas goes in both the gas in and...

Finally got around to brewing this a few weeks back. I was impatient (and all my taps were dry) so I kegged with the dry hops after 2 weeks and put it under CO2. MAN THIS BEER ROCKS! Some people might not like the unique mango/orange tast of citra hops but I love it. Missed my numbers a little...

I put a batch of this on back in January 2010 and its still sitting in the carboy. I might have to get around to bottling it at some point.

This looks great! Im going to brew it this weekend, with a few changes to the recipe based on what I have available: 11lb Vienna malt 0.5 lb Cara-pils/Dextrin 0.5lb Crystal 60L 1lb Rye 1.5oz Cascade @ 60 1oz Citra @ 20 .5oz Citra @ 10 1oz Citra @ 5 1oz Citra @ 0 1oz Citra dryhop 1oz Cascade...

When I brew, I am find myself struggling to get a full 5 gallons into the fermenter. unfortunatelyy my system is a little too small to produce the 5.25 or 5.5 gallons to account for hop and trub loss so I wind up racking almost everything from the boil kettle into the carboy, cold break and all...

How long does this need to age before becoming drinkable? Also, I plugged the numbers into beertools and came out with a 1.091 OG, and 166 IBU's. Is anyone else getting those numbers?

Picaroons Cascade (?) IPA 14-B American IPA Author: Thomas Size: 5.0 gal Efficiency: 75.0% Attenuation: 75.0% Calories: 229.16 kcal per 12.0 fl oz Original Gravity: 1.069 (1.056 - 1.075) Terminal Gravity: 1.017 (1.010 - 1.018) Color: 11.44 (6.0 - 15.0) Alcohol: 6.77% (5.5% - 7.5%) Bitterness...

I have just slanted out some Wyeast 1968 and noticed that some of the cells are elongated under the microscope. Does anyone more knowledgeable of yeast morphology know if this indicates some kind of division mutant, or do they elongate during active cell growth?

I was going to make it last weekend but life got in the way. I think I will have time this weekend.