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Happiness is five pounds of hops in the freezer, three and a half pounds form this, my third, years crop. The stash consists of Centennial, Nugget, Magnum and Willamette. Now comes the fun parts of converting them all into beer, more than 250 gallons by my calculations! Next year I need to...

The lawn service cut off half of my hops. No one else understands my grief so I thought I'd vent here. Tom

Spring has FINALLY sprung! My third year hops are busting out of the ground. I'm pretty excited about this years harvest since I got enough last season to last most of the year. I also planted two new varieties (Willamette and Sterling) last year so they should produce this year as well. One...

I've been collecting vintage beer bottles to use for my home brew for a while now and made an excellent Crag's List find today. A fellow was selling a box of 16 raised letter beer bottles from various Detroit breweries, for $12. There were some from Detroit Brewing (est 1886), West Side Brewing...

I scored a half barrel keg on Craig's List this weekend for $25. These things are in such demand that the only reason I got it was that I happened to respond within 30 seconds of the post. I have a 16 gallon cone tank for the primary fermentor and a converted 48 quart Ice Cube cooler for the...

I have an old fashioned soda fountain that uses soda water and hand pump syrup dispensers. The Coke syrup I use works fine but any syrups that I make myself spoil too quickly. Is there anything I can add as a preservative to keep them fresh? Tom