Pardon me, shellfish.
Or fruit/vegetable juice with any meat extract in it that I didn't put there. Same reason I've never grabbed a nice warm can or bottle of Beefamato.
OK, everywhere I mention this I get all kinds of disgusted reactions. I don't care. It's one of the great beer-based pleasures in life and if I'm the only one doing it, that's fine. (Actually, a little googling shows that others are doing it, but mostly as a hangover cure.)
When I was a kid I...
I spotted this today and was happy to pay about $5/bottle. It's got great color, and it's an OK beer, but I was expecting something a lot more amazing. I grow hops and love to crush them and inhale deeply when they're ripe. I LOVE hops. This stuff doesn't smell all that hoppy compared to other...
Yes, but it'll have to be next fall. I gave away most of this year's crop so only have enough left for one or two trial batches, depending how much I use per batch.
Some kind of hop swaps between growers would be a great idea. Probably such a thing already exists.
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Precisely what I was planning to do. I don't know if they still count as fresh now that they're dried, vacuum-packed and frozen. Next year I'm going to be ready to brew when harvest season comes around. I doubt I'll use them before drying, for fear of tasting too much vegetable flavor, but I'll...
Hi all--
My great-great-grandfather planted hops on our farm in Montana before or around 1920. I don't know the variety. Probably cluster, if cluster existed then, or maybe they're a rare (or even otherwise extinct) old German variety that some member of the family brought with them. I don't...
2008 harvest (only a small portion of total) of unknown hop variety planted in 1920's or before in NW Montana. Now growing in Illinois. These were the last ones harvested--some are past their prime. Earlier batches (before insane amounts of rain drove me off) were fresher and prettier, but I...
2008 harvest (only a small portion of total) of unknown hop variety planted in 1920's or before in NW Montana. Now growing in Illinois. These were the last ones harvested--some are past their prime. Earlier batches (before insane amounts of rain drove me off) were fresher and prettier, but I...
2008 harvest (only a small portion of total) of unknown hop variety planted in 1920's or before in NW Montana. Now growing in Illinois. These were the last ones harvested--some are past their prime. Earlier batches (before insane amounts of rain drove me off) were fresher and prettier, but I...
2008 harvest (only a small portion of total) of unknown hop variety planted in 1920's or before in NW Montana. Now growing in Illinois. These were the last ones harvested--some are past their prime. Earlier batches (before insane amounts of rain drove me off) were fresher and prettier, but I...
An umbrella makes a great harvesting receptacle.
2008 harvest (only a small portion of total) of unknown hop variety planted in 1920's or before in NW Montana. Now growing in Illinois. These were the last ones harvested--some are past their prime. Earlier batches (before insane amounts of rain...
2008 harvest (only a small portion of total) of unknown hop variety planted in 1920's or before in NW Montana. Now growing in Illinois. These were the last ones harvested--some are past their prime. Earlier batches (before insane amounts of rain drove me off) were fresher and prettier, but I...