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You go to supposedly great beer pubs to taste everything they have on tap...only to confirm that your brews taste better (and don't cost $4-6/pint!)....

Jukas: I was interested in your notes to this recipe where you said you keg after primary fermentation is complete and dry hop in the keg. So as I understand it, you basically secondary and condition in the keg under pressure and chilled to 40 degrees? Is that correct? Do you pull the dry...

Cool....just bought my pound! I only had 4 oz's left and most of my favorite brews use Simcoe.

Thanks for the assistance Jukas! Hopping seems a little light compared to what I usually brew, but with Simcoe in short supply...that's a good thing. I definately have enough to brew this one. I'm usually at 6-10oz per batch (mostly late & dry), but that why I was drinking Pliny, while...

Great beer...just had it over the weekend! Any updates? How sure are you that there is Pilsner and M.O. in this recipe? Thanks.

I'm no bug expert, but I think that is a lacewing....if so, they eat aphids....definately not an aphid.

Not the whole pie...I added cooked pie filling with spices like a pie dry hop. I really don't see what the crust would add other than a bunch of trub gunk...

I agree, I just add a couple of cans of pumpkin to call it Pumpkin Beer, but the flavor of pumpkin is very subtle at best. The spices are what people notice as pumpkin and it smells awesome when you are boiling the wort! I wanted pumpkin flavor so bad last year that I cooked up some pumpkin...

I have had the best luck adding it to the mash. Last year I added to boil and secondary and it left the beer slightly starchy and slimy. You will probably get people all over the board who have had different experiences, both good and bad. The drawback of mashing is it gums up the mash tun...

FYI - I did something like this in the secondary/keg (awesome smelling pumpkin pie in a dry hop sack) and it ruined my beer....I wanted to get more pumpkin flavor and what I got was slimy, starchy, pumkiny beer...the only batch I have ever tossed. Nothing wrong with experimenting and reporting...

Don't know where you are, but I bought a dozen different hop plants (varieties that I use) from Great Lakes Hops (not rhizomes) in late October last year, got them planted before the snow set in and I harvested more hops than I will use all year. Buy from Great Lakes online and your trellis...

To give you an idea of the hand pick labor that goes into a pound of hops, it took two of us about 4 hours to pick 25 pounds of wet hops from 12 bines, another few hours to dry and package them, to net 6 pounds of dry. Thats nearly 2 hours labor per pound dry. So what is your time worth? At...

I think it goes with the territory with home grown hops...I saw a few tiny things scurrying under the screen as I was bagging my dried stash, but figured the "seal a meal" treatment, plus freezing, and then boiling at brewing, would take care of any microscopic pests that remained on the cones...

Here are the harvest numbers for my twelve first year plants from Great Lakes Hops that I put in the ground last October: (2 bines) Zeus 2# dry; Mt. Hood 5 oz dry; Magnum 11.1 dry; Kent Golding 7.5 oz dry; (2 bines) Chinook 2.4#; (2 bines) Cascade 14 oz; (3 bines) Centennial 1.5 #. 6 Pounds...

My Chinooks look similar to nagmay's....I think they are fairly identifiable by the way their petals begin to lift straight our as they ripen. I just harvest a bunch of Zeus/Centennial last night and they don't do that...they remain more cone shaped.

Nice harvest, but if you hadn't accidentally pulled down the bine...you would have let those go another week or so...right? All of mine look at least that ripe, but I don't think they are ready. Sorry about the ladder fall....I did the same thing this weekend while blasting a hornets nest in a...

It probably depends upon the variety, but my unripe cones smell hoppy with I squish them in my hands, but the ones I'm thinking are ripe smell real hoppy just sticking your nose up the the hanging cone and they are starting to open and yellow and are very papery. Those are the ones I am picking...

Your's look alot like mine....based on my research, they are not ready. The only varieties I have that appear to be ready are Magnum and Chinook....all others are still too green and moist...but close. My research has me waiting til they are papery, with many yellowing or browining on...

This is good info! Mine are all first years, so I will be following your advice. I'm still waiting for mine to dry a little and yellow slightly on vine. We have been in 90's for past month + and they are still growing like crazy, cones are opening on some, but still green and damp. Mine...

You cannot go wrong with Great Lake's hops...they provide the best mail ordered plant material that I have ever received and are very accessable online and they offer helpful information to all growers.