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I have mature Northern Brewer and Newport crowns that I need to get rid of quick! Also a bunch of hearty Cascade and Willamette rhizomes. Send me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can! Thanks! -John Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Mature Crowns for sale! 3 year old Northern Brewer and 2.5 year old Newport. I also have hearty Cascade and Willamette rhizomes. Hops have been growing at a friends ranch in very fertile, loamy soil. They are selling their house and unfortunately I don't have any more room at my townhouse for...

Just when I thought I had it all figured out, my second year Cascade hops are putting out non aromatic cones. I had a first harvest months ago. I picked them because the lupulin looked "school bus/yield sign yellow" like the guy from Gorst Valley hops said on basic brewing radio. I ignored the...

Has anyone tried this? I just brewed a 3 gal ag Pale Ale batch and tried to calculate for break loss. I still ended up with only 2.5 gallons. I've always wanted to throw some boiled/sanitized water in with the protien and trub in an attempt to reclaim that last bit of sugars to get another half...

Weather here in the middle Carolina's has been above 70˚ and well into the 80's for the past month. I love this early spring! My 2nd year hops are amazing at 12 or so feet with leaves as big as my hand! My Cascade took off particularly fast and oddly enough has in the past 3-4 days...

I hope everyone is enjoying this early spring start! This forum has helped with a lot of great recourses on hops growing. One of the latest threads hads a link to a lecture at the University of Vermont from a pro-hop grower. He said to cut all the first bines and let the secondary growth that...

Yesterday, 3 weeks after pitch, I put my 6 gal carboy with IPA in the kegerator. I have the temperature set at 48˚ and now the airlock is bubbling like it does 36 hours after pitching yeast. I intended to turn the temp down to cold crash after I had a couple beers this weekend. What's...

Yesterday, 3 weeks after pitch, I put my 6 gal carboy with IPA in the kegerator. I have the temperature set at 48˚ and now the airlock is bubbling like it does 36 hours after pitching yeast. I intended to turn the temp down to cold crash after I had a couple beers this weekend. What's...

Yesterday, 3 weeks after brew day I put my 6 gal carboy with IPA in the kegerator next to a keg. I have the temperature set at 48˚ and now the airlock is bubbling like it does 36 hours after pitching yeast. I intended to turn the temp down but I wanted to have a couple beers this weekend...

Several weeks ago I noticed a small leak from the spout of my fermentation bucket. As soon as I put my hand on it to inspect it the spigot broke an My Precious was pouring all over the floor! I yelled to my wife for help and we hobbled it to the kitchen to figure something out. I felt like the...

I just spent an enormous amount of money getting licensed in two states so my budget is tight. Which is not a bad thing because it forces me to think very creatively! Here is what I'm kicking around. Since honey is not a good yeast starter because of complex carbohydrates and lack of nutrients...

I recently planted a Northern Brewer Hop. I didn't expect much but due to growth (4 ft/month) I'm wondering if I might actually get a harvest. Main question: I have looked through the forums but I haven't seen a well defined 'cutoff' period when hop production definitely stops. So I'm asking...

Three questions: 1)Is it good to cut leaves off in late summer to encourage growth? 2)Should I let buds grow on the bottom 3 feet in this recent late summer surge? 3)There is a very thick shoot coming up from the crown, should I let it be or cut it so that the higher bines get more...

I'm just wondering what everyones thoughts are as to if I may have late harvest if any with the following information. Late June or so I planted a Northern Brewer rhyzome and it has seriously jumped out of the ground! It was a bottom of the barrel, medium small one to start with that I got at...

Should I let these new ground shoots grow and cut the non producing branch this late in the summer? Yesterday I snipped off about 15-25% of the leaves on two of my Cascades. The idea was to thin out some overgrowth so that the sun can get to the hop laterals, some of which have stayed pretty...

I've seen in some forums mentions of spider mites or something like that that produce a silky substance under the leaf. I'm wondering if one of these two are what people are talking about, neither look or act mutch like a spider. The first one deftly jumps out of the way once you get too...

I planted some rhizomes recently. The shoot (where the leaves bud from) of the top of my Cascade bine popped off in a recent storm and since then it has sent out a bunch of lateral shoots that have gone out all the way down the 3.5' stalk. I trimmed the bottom ones since eventually I plan to...

I saw on another thread that you could sunburn your leaves simply by getting water droplets on them. I'm trying to figure out if my leaves have the same problem or if there is an issue with nutrition which Theredben suggested. I can post another pict if you need something in greater detail...

I brewed a batch of Oatmeal Stout my Sister-in-law gave me for Christmas. It had the run-of-the-mill 3.3 dark lme and 3.3 light lme and some grain to steep. I didn't properly journal this one but If I remember correctly I did a: -5.5 gal batch -6.6 total lbs lme -partial mash with a wee...

I've been trying to find what the specific flavor differences are between American 2-row and English pale malt, specifically Muntons. I understand American has a more neutral flavor and English is a little richer or biscuity, but no one seems to say much else. I've made biscuity beers...