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Last year I put down a fresh batch of mulch and I believe that mulch came with a nice fungal infection because shortly after that my hops and all the rest of my plants came down with a nasty fungal infection. I sprayed last year, but it was late in the season. Would you preemptively go ahead...

My middle daughter has asked if she can brew with me lately. (She's 9). I am certain her desire to brew with me is all about just spending time with me. Although in the day and age of overly sensitive people I did take pause about saying yes immediately. I look at it as cooking and teaching...

Ok Ok before the joke start I know how dirty that title sounds. Now on to the problem. I finally moved my tripel into the fridge today. I brewed the Tripel on Oct 10th, let it sit in primary until Nov 1(at 65-60degrees) until I racked it to bottles and just today moved it into the fridge...

Title says it all. I've been reading up on how to improve my efficiency, and I believe that my crush isn't fine enough for BIAB. I ordered a knock off corona from discount tommy. That being said in a few days I am planning on brewing a hefeweizen and wasn't sure if I should re-crush the...

Any critiques or help with this. I was playing around and tweaked a recipe that I had used before. It's just a traditional IPA. I don't know if adding two different kinds of pale malt will do anything but their descriptions did mention that they offer slightly different flavor so I thought it...

I attempted my first all grain via BIAB today. This entire experience has been well an experience...starting when I forgot the DME from the LHBS and had to haphazard my way through trying to make a starter out of some of my grain and then just dumping the entire starter including my mini wort...

I am doing my first biab and want to be able to calculate efficacy but I don't know how to tell what my ending water volume was after mash in. Should I mark my brew pot? Is there a better way to figure out the volume?

I'm an idiot. I went to the LHBS to get all the ingredients for my first all grain brew. I bought the yeast and told the clerk I would just make a starter.. except I didn't buy any DME. Sigh. I do have yeast nutrient from wyeast but i assume you can't make a starter from only nutrient?

We are expecting our first frost tonight. Should I go ahead and cover my hops plants with a covering of mulch? Is mulching just the mound enough? They are in a raised bed if that matters. Thanks in advance.

I'm not exactly sure where to post this so I'm sorry if I'm in the wrong spot. I thought it would be fun to brew something a little different. I stumbled upon American Wild Ale's, but I'm having trouble figuring out the exact technique and yeast. Has anyone else brewed one of these? A search...

I'm really new to brewing and went to my LHBS this week to pick up my next kit. The store clerk was awesome and helped explain yeast starters to me so that I could save money. We began discussing the affect the yeast has on beer. I realized for the first time that most of the beer I really...

When I named this the "Hee-man Women Hater's Club" from the little rascals popped into my head. I know there area few women out there. Yooper comes to mind in all her mod greatness. :) I did do a quick search to see if there were any threads on women brewers and saw 2. Interesting enough...

I have thrown around some ideas with my husband about starting a hop farm here in Indiana. Unfortunately, I don't already live on land where I could start this. I've not looked at farm land before but I'm told it's at a relatively high market price right now. I also want to do some...

Twas the night before my first brew and all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse. When what to my wondering eyes does appear a shipment from UPS with my 10 gallon brew pot and a bayou burner I ordered from here.... I ran to the door, met the delivery man in the...

I knew I needed to transplant my hops. When I planted my rhizomes in spring I placed them too close to the house which didn't allow for much air movement. I just dug them up to move them out and wow those little sticks had GROWN! I'm worried I hacked the crap out of them and killed them. The...

As I was looking ahead to next season and trying to decide what I wanted to plant I started asking myself this question. I thought some of you might want to play along. If you could only plant one hop which kind would you chose? Alternatively, if land/money wasn't an object what varieties...

This is my first year growing hops and with such a little yield I hadn't decided what to do with my hops yet. Then I got an idea to infuse the hops with vodka... a quick google search revealed that my idea was not revolutionary, so I decided to add a little twist. Gin infused with .25 oz zeus...

As I was checking on my hops I think I have some powdery mildew on one of my hops. I got online to try and decide what is best for treatment. This lead me to remember all the threads I have read about treating pests, mildews, etc. I thought I would put together a spreadsheet with a section for...

After planting my hops this year I realized that I planted them too close to the house. I don't think there was enough air flow through the plant. I thought about either training them out and then up but didn't know how well that would work and if I should just dig them up and move them out...

I harvested one round of hops from my Zeus plant and they smelled heavenly. All through the drying process I kept going over and taking big whiffs. About 7 days later I did round two of collecting hops and these just aren't the same. some smell like the others but other ones have almost a...