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Time for a grinder at CU's house. I finally put on the big boy pants and processed my own deer again last year after a huge lay off and I'm going to need to do something with the two pigs we are raising in October. I'll be making probably 30+ lbs. of pork sausage each year, more if I like it...

I've been smoking with cheap charcoal so far and it seems to me like I have to refuel quite a bit and some white smoke is emitted when I do. I know that there's "premium" charcoal and lumps and what not. What I'm wondering is: is it worth it? What do you use and why?

Sooooo, my work is sending me for some training in TN for two weeks starting the 17th of January. I'll be staying in Maryville, just south of Knoxville. I'll have limited car access since a group of us are taking a company vehicle down. Where do I HAVE to visit in Knoxville? Any brewers...

Got my end of a trade with Jessup today:ban:. I'd never heard of Weyerbacher before I started talking to him. The descriptions of these beers on BA sound great! The five Weyerbachers and the Troegenator are flanked by four of his homebrews, including an '09 Barleywine, a KBS clone, and a Wit...

So after years of brewing and discussing with my wife all types of beer and what ferments them today she decided she wants to make kimchi at home. The first thing that comes to my mind is "cool, what ferments it?" So I search and just as I suspected, all the cool bugs that make sour beers and...

Have any of you dry-hopped a beer with your homegrown Zues and sampled the finished product? I've always used mine for bittering but am planning on DHing a batch in a couple weeks for a comp. My problem is that I forgot how intensely pungent they are. I've used the Cascade and Centennial...

If any brewers want to experiment with wild hops I can show you where there are three plants growing seperately near the Battle Creek, MI area. I don't have time to brew with them this year so I won't mind at all showing you where they are. They are all three ready to harvest. I brewed with...

I just bought two 50lb. CO2 tanks and want to trade one of them for a smaller bottle that will fit inside of my soon-to-be kegerator. I would prefer a 10 or 20lb. tank. I am located north of Battle Creek. What do ya got? PM or e-mail [email protected]

Just saw this on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Hops-Analysis-Alpha-Beta-Acid-HALF-PRICE-SALE-/150437472248?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2306c5a7f8 Almost gets it in a feasible range for the home grower with more than one variety. Sorry if this has already been posted.

So I went nuts today with the new brew at the new house. Lots of firsts. First brew at the new place with little preparation. First time FWH. First low temp/90 min. mash. Only my third AG batch but I feel like I have my head around the process so RDWHAHB:rockin:. Everything went really...

I have recently moved to my first home and the first project we tackled was re-locating the laundry. Everything is working great except for the dryer. It powers up and tumbles but does not get hot. From the wiring diagram the heating element looks to be the only thing pulling 220 but there is...

So I've been collecting stuff for/slowly assembling a keggle and cooler tun. Today was the day and I had a lot of fun. The 48qt. cooler with copper manifold worked very well. I ended up with an efficiency of 76% and finished in five hours. Not bad in my book and only one to 1 1/2 hours more...

Cut down the bines today, eight plants. Left one up that has a small second harvest still maturing that I'll probably take to work and let others smell. Just seems wrong to defy mother nature like this, but it was time. Most of the leaves were yellow, brown, or white. I always make sure to...

Just wondered if anyone else has had this happen during their hop harvesting season: First off. I work in a factory and shower twice a day. I wash my hands many times throughout the day so I don't attribute this happening to something left on my hands or under my finger-nails. For the...

So I've been on the lookout for a wild plant for the last few weeks as they're easier to spot once the cones are on. Seems that ErikTLupus has been better at finding them than me. Well, that changed tonight! I got about 3 wet lbs. from a plant that I've passed by about six times in the last...

Not sure how many baseball fans there are here, I know there's a few. After finally seeing Gran Torino a couple weeks ago the "Bran-Torino" campaign put on by the Tigers and Phillies made me giggle. Just glad it paid off. I voted more than 100 times this afternoon alone. It's really nice to...

So, I got down to Bell's today to pick up some ingrediants for a smoked stout. I'm currently brewing with extract, so I wanted some peated malt since the mini-mash won't allow for a lot of smoked malt. They didn't have any, but the guy working there(their employees are pretty much all brewers...

I have one part of my yard in which I'm growing three hop plants. Two of them have bines and leaf stems that are red in color. I'm not sure what causes this and even more puzzled why the Hallertau is still pretty much all green. The two varieties that are red are Centennial and Mt. Hood. I...

Caught this lady doing her thing on the cascade today That looks to me to be a sack of future aphid killers under her. She's been on it since this morning. I've seen very few aphids, and have only seen a few ladybugs cruising the leaves, but they are more than welcome to breed on my...

I have one cascade bine that I culled this year that is growing well in one of my boxes that I'm looking for a home for. It's about 16" long and is climbing the plant that I took it off of about six weeks ago. PM if you're interested and can come to get it.:mug: