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I started reading all of the comments above and there are many different opinions on whether to use a secondary fermenter or not. Some asked how to transfer without introducing oxygen into the beer. This is my process. First off, I use 6.5 gallon glass carboys and keg my beers. I have a...

Freezer full of new 2013 crop and pellets from previous purchase. What a sight to behold!!!!

More cascades

Hallertauer trellis

Cascade trellis

Hallertauer to the left half and Cascade to the right half.

I have about 4 cascade plants that are very mature. This year I transplanted about 4 or 5 plants around the corner of the house to expand production. Then a beer club member told me he was moving out of state so I dug up his plants. Got about 8 Hallertauer plants started. Not bad production...

Well we just bagged up our hop harvest. A total of 76 Oz dried hops. 44 Oz of Cascades and 32 Oz Hallertauer. 4 Oz short of 5lbs. Great year. Mark 902.1 + 76 = 978.1

Hops!!!!

Older trellis setup.

Another trellis of hops

More hops

Hops grew very nice this year.

Vultures, picked the carcass clean !!!!!

Use them all the time in my Rye IPA. Took the last pound to close it out! Thankfullly the freezer has more room for all the hops I keep buying. Way too easy to click and buy ingredients:)

I hated that when you have great clear beer at home and then you try and take the keg with you to a friend's house only for it to get stirred up. No matter how careful I tried not to shake it up, it still seemed to get cloudy. I got around that problem by using a 3 gallon corny keg I scored...

Bill, I would have to agree that splits in half would be the way to go. If you look at the cost of a typical 50/55 lbs sack of grain, the cost difference between someone having to purchase 25 lbs versus 12.5 lbs is maybe another $10. When you consider all the manpower to split 4 ways, the...

You could always add some carapils to your grain bill. The carapils adds body and helps with head retention since it is unfermentable. For most of my receips I add a pound of carapils when making a 10 gallon batch. Don't go overboard as I have noticed if you add two pounds, then the beer...

Excelllent. See you Sunday. Mark

Too funny....that could of happened with the way cell phones try and complete the words you are typing.