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I did a 120 min IPA and am thinking of icing it to bump up the ABV. 1) what is the best temperature to chill to to get water to freeze and not alcohol? 2) Do you collect the ice to concetrate wort? If so how do you get the ice out of a 6 1/2 gallon glass carboy? Thanks

Weird huh? My second year Cascades are 15 feet tall with almost fully developed cones. todays date is May 20th. I live in South Carolina and we have had some record high temps. I even cut back the first growth beginning of april. Irrigated daily with about 8 hrs of direct sun exposure. I've been...

What are the normal procedures for trimming back hop bines in the winter?

Has anyone attempted tissue propagation for hop rhyzomes? the kit costs $250 and comes with all the necessary equiptment I've got 30 plants and would like to expand rapidly... from what I understand is it is basically cloning on a microscopic level... any advice?

I'm thinking of building some raised beds around my existing hop mounds and filling them with vermiculite and compost for rhyzome production. I am planning on using some tree's that I just pushed up into windrows. when I say raised beds I mean 200 feet long by 7 feet wide, with partitions to...

Does anyone have experience with pumping water out of a river for irrigating a field of hops? I'm off the grid and thinking of building a water wheel to power an alternator, which will charge a bank of batteries to run a 12 volt pump. right now i'm using a gas pump to fill a 250 gal tank which...

i've got 4 varieties of hops growing in south carolina, but now i'm thinking barley varieties. its almost time to plant so I need barley seed asap. what am I looking for? 2 row? 6 row? both? how about wheat, and rye, and fruits i've got an up and running farm and the sky is the limit so what...

ok, i've read about 50 threads and I made my first cider. I used: 7 jugs of "simply apple" juice, roughly 3 1/2 gallons. 3.3 lbs. muntons wheat malt extract 24 oz. organic brown sugar 12 oz. south carolina honey safe-ale 04 yeast my O.G. was 1.070 so i'm expecting around 8% abv. i'm...

I just did an all grain terrapin rye squared clone and my hydrometer says 1.035. what may have gone wrong and how can I fix it? heres what i did... Terrapin rye squared IPA clone 9 lbs. Pale malt 2 lbs. Rye malt ½ lbs. Honey malt ¼ lbs. Chocolate malt pitched to grain at 170 degree's...

i've got a japanese or oriental beetle problem in my hop yard, i've got 30 plants over 120 ft. i've got three beetle traps evenly spaced, and i dont want to use any pesticides since my of my plants are putting on cones... any ideas? how about planting something nearby that repels or attracts them?

I just kegged my second batch, a Belgian wheat ale. my last batch took a few days to carbonate, is there any way to speed up the process? shake the keg?

check out these hop trychomes. these are some 1st year cascades.

has anyone had problems with the heat in the south, and does growing in partial shade help for summer months? I've got some cascade bines over 18 feet tall and they were planted on April 15th. i've got them on an automatic timer that waters them twice a day for 20 minutes. i'll post pictures soon.