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I was just harvesting my first year Cascade hops (got a 5 gallon bucket full!) and was getting ready to dry them in the food dehydrator. I googled up "hops drying temperature and got... THIS: http://www.czhops.cz/tc/pdf/optimisation.pdf An article on optimized hop drying and conditioning...

From what I've read, harvest time is more or less based on the length of day. Or rather, the length of daylight determines when the hop plant will switch from vertical to branching growth, and then to flowering. (Somewhat similarly to a rather closely related plant that isn't usually grown...

I was over at my local salvage yard today picking through some SS pipe fittings for another project and noticed that he has bags and bags of 316 SS 3/8" weld on female pipe fittings. Brand new, clean, for around $2.50/lb. That makes them really damn cheap. If anyone is interested I could stuff a...

Batch Size: 5.50 gal Boil Size: 6.57 gal Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: Brew Pot (7 gal) and Igloo/Gott Cooler (5 Gal) Brewhouse Efficiency: 85.0% Amount Item Type % or IBU 10 lbs Pale Malt - 2 Row (Cargill) (2.0 SRM) 1 lbs Biscuit (Dingemans) (22.5 SRM) 12.0 oz Crystal Extra Dark -...

I finally got my ass into gear today and built a lagering/fermenting box. It's made out of 1.5" extruded polystyrene sheet, glued together with vinyl caulk. For refrigeration, I had the compressor and coils out of a cube fridge. I used a digital house thermostat for temperature control, I set it...

I planned on 75% efficiency (I got 77 last brew) but got 85% Grain Bill: 6lbs 2-row (Cargill Canada) 2L 6lbs Maris Otter (Crisp) 4L 1.5lbs Biscuit (Dingemans) 22.5L Hops: 1oz Chinook 12% pellet First Wort - 85min .5oz Chinook 12% pellet 20 min .25oz Chinook 12% pellet 5 min 1oz Cascade 7.2%...