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so how do i kill those little damned leaf eating caterpillars? i'm sick off picking them off one by one with tweezers. is there any chemical i can use now to kill them before the actual hops start growing? they are chewing holes in the leaves already. and don't get me started on japanese...

I have about a pound of hops I grew last year, and 4 pounds of dark winter honey. Any ideas to make a beer using up both? Seriously, I have to use this stuff, and I was just going to make a quick, simple beer with a few cans of amber malt extract or a few pounds of light DME. 5 gallon batch...

Just finished vacuum packing this years harvest. One plant only had 2 ounces dried. The other had 27 ounces dried, filled a 6 gallon bucket. Yay! Both plants are 3 years old. Looks like I have to move one into more sun. I also planted 4 new rhizomes this year, so we'll see what time will tell.

It's been pretty rainy here every day lately, with more in the forecast. So how do I tell if my hops are ready to pick? And if I pick them when waterlogged with rain, is there anything special to do when drying?

i made a 5 gal batch of cream ale. looked in the fridge, and my wyeast smackpack was a year old! i know, bad planning on my part... i smacked it anyways, it took 4 days to expand. thought that was a good sign, dumped it in, 3days later nothing. drove an hour to the 'local' hbs, got a...

i got me some xmas cash, and decided to buy hop rhizomes. every homebrew place is sold out! do you think anybody will have some for sale in the spring? does anybody here have a few they could part with? i planted some seeds last spring and they grew really good, maybe i'll be able to...

i got the hint when my christmas card said "give santa some of your beer" and had cash inside. it was either a bribe or a threat, i'm not sure. but i'm out of homebrew right now. so what kind of beer do i make for a 55 year old electrical lineman who works 70 hours a week when it is below...

so what if i only have 5 weeks or so until turkey day... any ideas? nothing stupid and weird with turkey or cranberries or yams in it. something nice and simple that my relatives will want to drink, but reminiscent of the season. maybe a bit spicy? not too much alcohol, the old folks are...

sooooo last christmas my mother-in-law got me a lil packet of hop seeds. i've read here (and there) that you can only grow hops from rhyzomes to my dismay. after starting the seeds indoors over the winter and spring, and then transplanting the small plants outdoors under a trellis, they have...

for probably 3/4's of the homebrews i have made, i have used 2 different kinds of yeast. usually a lager and an ale yeast. i figure this will cover any temperature swings that happen. i also try to use dry yeast and liquid yeast at the same time. so could anything bad happen? all of the...

i just registered here, good to meet ya'll. i'm no newbie, i've made about 20 batches of homebrew so far. all kinds and types, and all different brewing methods. i'm usually partial mash now, and usually darker bers. just finishing drinking my maple ale from last august. next weekend...