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Anyone doing this? Got a good recipe?

Maybe this isn't quite on topic with hop growing, but I figure we all need something to discuss besides spring preorders or we'll go crazy;) - So-o-o-o where do you all think craft brewing is heading over the next 5 years? IMHO, I think the next push is going to be in the area of...

I came across an interesting discussion the other day, whose topic was -Why are German beers so different from their commercial American counterparts? Short answer : Reinheitsgebot! (sneeze!) Reinheitsgebot is one of the first and oldest consumer protection laws ever passed. It is usually...

I came across an interesting discussion the other day, whose topic was -Why are German beers so different from their commercial American counterparts? Short answer : Reinheitsgebot! (sneeze!) Reinheitsgebot is one of the first and oldest consumer protection laws ever passed. It is usually...

Would any one growing in the Southwest US know of a plant source for native H.L. neo mexicanus plants? I have found only one source in New Mexico, but he believes the wild plants he has collected over the past 10 years are patentable (but has no money to do it or enforce it). Being that they...

You think you may have mites? Easy to check- hold a clean sheet of white paper under a suspect leaf and tap the leaf a few times. Look closely - if you got'em you'll see what looks like dust specs that are moving. Break out the safer soap. Actually a little Palmolive green in a spritz bottle...

With all the rain and humidity we've had in the midwest, mildew is making an early appearance. Any time the leaves are wet or humidity is above 80% for an 8 hour period with temps above 60; conditions are right for disease formation. Spores overwinter in old plant debris/ mulch and are carried...

Known to my friends as the plant Jedi - maybe I can help in the hop growing forum.:mug:

Does anyone know a source for known ancestry mildew resistant male plants? I'm looking for two reasons: 1) to cross breed new varieties adapted to the midwest; and 2) to interplant with my Santiam (naturally seedless tett. hybrid). I read that this results in larger cones/yields. Breeders in...