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My 2nd Year Goldings hop plant did not grow very cones this year. I think its getting to much sun where it is. Does anyone know about how much sun they should get? Its in the most sunny part of the yard now and the some of the leaves where turning brown and falling off for a while. I think I...

Great news. My golding hops plant I planted last spring survived the winter and is breaking though :) I was considering moving it this year however because I believe where I have it planted (the sunniest part of my yard) it was getting too much sun. Many of the leave were rather brown by...

A week ago I transferred my cider to secondary fermentation. Today I was checking it out and noticed a dark layer on top. (see picture below). I don't remember seeing it on the cider I made last year; though that was many beers ago. Anyway I was wondering what it was. My thought is it...

I made a pumpkin porter today. I added the pumpkin (cooked) during the boil. And determined by difference in pre and post gravity reads adjusted and for volume. From that I concluded that my pumpkin has a PPG (sugar) of 8. Or one pound of pumpkin in one gallon of water makes a SG of 1.008...

So I have determined today I an going to pick my hops on my first year Goldings. They are starting a to get a little brown at the ends and they spring right back open when you squish them. This being my first year I was not sure if I should harvest them all at once or not though. Many of...

This is my first year growing hops. All I have is one Kent Goldings, which I am currently growing organically not sure if I will keep that up or not. I have two bines (no idea why they are not called vines) one is about 9 feet tall and the other is about 5.5 feet tall. They look very healthy...

I made the Lefse Blond kit from NB (http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/recipe-kits/all-grain-kits/all-grain-ale-kits/lefse-blonde-all-grain-kit.html) a few weeks ago. After being in the primer for 9 days and secondary for 12 days I bottled with corn sugar dissolved in water however it...

I am leaving tomorrow for a long weekend in Charlotte NC. Anyone have any recommendations for local brewpubs or brews that I could not get up here in CT?

So about a week ago I made NB AG Lefse Blond Kit I've never made one of there kits so I am excited to see how it turns out. I am confused about my final gravity I got. So I am going to show what I got step by step. The kit has 8.75 lbs. Belgian Pilsner malt (36 GP), 0.25 lbs. Briess Caramel...

My girlfriend is highly allergic to oranges does anyone have any idea if she would also be allergic to orange blossom honey? i have not found anything yet from google seems kind of risky to me.

I don't have a corker so I just bought corks that you push in by hand and one fell out :( So I have two question one is i pounded the rest in much father with a rubber mallet most are very close to being even with the top of the bottle will this be sufficient to keep them in? Or should I age...

A few weeks ago I made a new mash turn that I thought was going to be a great upgrade for me. I went from a 5 gallon round cooler to a 40 qt. rectangular one. I used a braided stainless steel hose casing cut in half as the false bottom I guess you would call it. See picture below. In the 5...

So recently I came up with the idea of trying to make some homemade hard ice tea. But I have not seen any threads on here about it, which was my first sign it might be a bad idea... Basically my plan is to dissolve some sugar in water; boil it for a little while add some yeast and nutrient...

At the end of August I made mead for the first time. I have never even had mead before. But for some reason it seemed like a good idea, i'll find out if I was right or not when I finally try them. I do have some brewing experience with beer and hard cider. I wanted to try and get a wide...

I am planing on making my first cider ever this weekend, and I just have one question. Should I aerate it with my fish tank aerator and stone like beer or not. I have read a bunch of threads and have not come across this being mentioned. Though a couple people have mentioned just to stir it...

I have my first batch or a fruit beer in my secondary. Its a strawberry wheat (I was going to make a cherry wheat but I had an incident:off:) Anyway, there seems to be a lot of debate on when you should add your fruit I added mine into the secondary after 7 days in the primary. However I...