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So we end up with a grain bill like this: 20lbs English Pale Malt 1lb 120L Crystal Malt 1lb Chocolate Malt .5lb Crystal 60 2lb honey That sounds tasty to me. Any other thoughts?

Ok so I made this beer a few years ago before I started brewing all grain. It turned out great as an extract recipe. Well I tried to make it last year as all grain and that was before I knew some key details of the all grain process. In short I didn't use any pale malt so I had no grain with...

My posts are 20' long but are 4' in the ground making them about 16' above ground. I just back filled them with dirt. My hop yard is located near an old abandoned hand dug well that i installed a well pump in and have a generator powering it. I'll use the pump to fill the water tower...

That does look similar. I haven't added any chemicals to this field in 7 years so I hope thats not the problem. Thanks for the link to the hand book. I have it somewhere but couldn't find it.

100 hills and counting . . . Water tower for gravity fed irrigation. more barrels will be added soon. Here is a picture of a second year cascade working its way up the rusty tractor.

Thanks Glen, what does the borax do? I'm guessing it has boron in it. I did a google search and it looks like it kills weeds/plants. Any recommendation on how much to add?

Well I welcome the possibility of nutrient deficiencies compared to some terrible disease. Here is my soil test. I am meeting with my fertilizer guy but he doesn't know much/anything about hops we are going to figure out what I need to add now and what I need to add mid-season. I was hoping...

I put 100 plants in the ground this year to start my endevour into hop farming and get my feet wet with experimenting with larger scale trellising than what I used in my home garden of 16 plants. I have a few plants that have had a strange appearance since they sprouted a few weeks ago...

Joe, thanks for sharing your tid bit of research that really sheds some light on things. So are we totally boned or can we add Amylase Enzyme and turn this starch to sugar and add some new yeast?

we first used the Irish ale slurry from our previous batch. We re-pitched with new vials of the same white labs Irish ale yeast with no reduction in gravity. How to we rouse the yeast? In my online shopping cart I have some Servomyces Yeast Nutrient 6 pack and Amylase Enzyme 1.5oz...

We have brewed a Spruce Porter with an og of 1.060 and so far have a fg of 1.048. Fermentation seemed to come to an end after 7 days, we got the same fg reading at 13 days and repitched the yeast and at day 20 the gravity reading was still 1.048. The problem is we planned to have a fg of 1.016...

Quantity isn't a problem. I have six 80 year old pear trees. I may have to try a fall spiced pear ale, a lambic and a cider.

Quantity isn't a problem. I have six 80 year old pear trees. I may have to try a fall spiced pear ale, a lambic and a cider.

that sounds pretty good to me too. how do I incorporate the pears with the beer wort?

I've never made a Lambic and don't think I've ever had one. But I have lots of pears and would like to make one. Does anyone have a detailed recipe that will walk me through my first pear lambic? Thanks, Brad