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I had been using my dial thermometer for some time, and noticed that the boiling wort was always at 206F. So I got a couple new ones. The first gave a boiling point reading of 210F, somewhat better than my original, but when I checked the melting point, it came at 37F. The second new one gave...

I have noticed an interesting alteration in the yeast I have been using lately. I bought a tube of White Labs California Ale Yeast WLP051 in November, '09, and have used it in making an amber ale. At the time of racking to the secondary, I save the top yeast in a quart or so of the fermenting...

I have long assumed that the corn sugar used in priming is glucose, also known as dextrose, a monosaccharide derived from table sugar (sucrose, a disaccharide). I have verified this consulting the definition of corn sugar in Wikipedia. However, the Corn Refiner's Association (CRA) is at this...

We have a dehumidifier in our basement, which I set on constant dehumifying. I curtained off the basement windows, so it is always dark down there, and that is where I set my window screens full of hops. I start with a weight of about 6.5 grams for four hops cones, and the third day it's down...

Well, I am thinking that the male flowers would pollinate the new female burs, thus producing seed and making the resulting cones useless. But maybe this is faulty reasoning. Maybe it might be OK to just let the male flower clusters be.

I have a two-year old Cascade plant that is now showing hundreds of male flower clusters and buds at the top of the vine, but also hundreds of perfectly good cones, which I'm now harvesting. I wondered what they were until seeing the picture at the head of this thread. A new generation of burs...

I also am from southeastern Michigan (Ann Arbor area), and we have had several frosts and freezes already since the hops came up. Mine have always done just fine through all the frosts, down to 29 F. They are second yeaar plants, now already 12 feet high and looking good. They are growing on...