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Man this is tough. Uh....... well i am a serious hop head but after a while i could see a Ruination IPA from Stone would get old even though that is my favorite. Something i could drink every day and not get tired of......well lets put it this way, if i had a magic fridge that fills itself and...

I heard that if you blend onion and mint together and get the juice from that and mix with soapy water it will kill and repel

how far up the plant does the damage go? if its down by the bottom id say its ants or spiders.

Yeah those are not cutworms. You would most likely find cutworms near the base of the plant where they eat. They will mow down your crop at the base like it has been cut hence the name. The little guys are in fact butterfly larvae of either the question mark butterfly or the hoary comma...

I used miracle grow my first year but this year I haven't used any fertilizers. I think the weather here has been fairer this year. We don't usually get temperatures below 40 in southern California so in April I get shoots.

first growth. this is only my second year so i am still kinda scared about doing anything except letting the plant do what it does. I did trim off about 30 extra shoots and sidearms already from both of my plants(cascade and centennial). Should I be trimming the first growth? I get shoots in...

My hops are going crazy already and its not even peak growing season yet. At this rate they'll reach the top of my 22 1/2 foot trellis before July. What am I gonna do? Anybody else have super insane hops?

I got a Mt.Hood rhizome last year from fresh hops. Looked exactly like yours. Anyways mine didn't do so well either. From what i can see it looks like an over watering issue. Mine got to much water and didn't even sprout. i would suggest cutting off the water for this season. If you get some...

So I can harvest these cones in July and the younger bines will grow up over the first bines and produce a second harvest in September? I heard that if I leave the cones they'll just get bigger.... or will they dry out before September?

I have a second year Centennial that is about 10' tall right now and it already has burrs. I'm guessing I'll have cones in a month. If I harvest then, will i get a second crop of cones in August/ September like normal? I am expecting my hops aren't done growing and they'll reach the top of my...

Hi all! So last year I planted 4 rhizomes- Cascade, Centennial, Sterling and Mt. Hood. The Sterling and Mt. Hood got to much water and never did anything, in fact I took them out of the ground because they were so soggy. I got about 2 ounces of Cascade hops and no Centennial. For...

thank you for being nicer about it. and thanks for the advice

ok so i should have said my strike water is 170F

Wow. Well my mistake. I've done about 8 batches so far and only 2 partial-mash. So im not incredibly experienced. Sorry i wasted your time and everything. :(:( and further more, i didnt mash at 170F that was the temp. of my strike water. I said it wrong.

so if i do full boils, which i can do now with a new 8 gallon kettle, the bitterness levels will be higher than in a partial boil? so when im using my software it will ask me the boil size i should say 6.5 gallons to get the right amount of ibu's? im such a noob. and ive heard of late...

yeah the place i get my stuff from beer beer and more beer said to mash at 170 i geuss because the temp will drop since im not using insulated coolers to hold the mash just a regular plastic bucket. but every where else i look it all says to mash between 150 and 160

well that explains some of it. i did use a 22qt kettle so about a 3 gallon boil

On my first partial batch i made an IPA using 2 oz of chinook hops for the bittering. When it came time to try the beer i found it to be lacking in bitterness. I put my recipe in my brewing software and it said it shouldve had like 108 ibu's but it was more like 55 ibu's. Why could this have...

Hey all just started up a brewing blog. im looking for advice/input. Go check it out its pretty cool. http://hopdupbrew.blogspot.com/:mug:

Hello, I have a 2nd year cascade rhizome and a 2nd year centennial rhizome that did very well the first year. But recently heavy rains caused the ditch that i planted them in to overflow and flood. How do i know if my rhizomes are ok and im also thinking about transplanting them into pots. Can...