lackofstyl
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Has anyone harvested their hops yet? I just pulled about 2 oz. off my first year fuggles. Also, dose anyone know how your supposed to get the plant ready for the colder months so you can regrow next year?
EdWort said:Mine are getting close. Perhaps next weekend. Now I gotta figure out how to dry them.
lackofstyl said:Has anyone harvested their hops yet? I just pulled about 2 oz. off my first year fuggles. Also, dose anyone know how your supposed to get the plant ready for the colder months so you can regrow next year?
EdWort said:Mine are getting close. Perhaps next weekend. Now I gotta figure out how to dry them.
kvh said:Use the Alton Brown (Good Eats) method of drying things - buy a few 20" x 20" furnace air filters (the zig-zag kind, not the squishy mesh kind). Fill all the crevices with hops, a different variety per filter... stack them up with an empty one on top, lay a box fan onto it, and bungie cord the whole contraption together. Turn on the fan and let run for a day or two... BAM! dry hops, and an awesome smelling house!
Buy a few hops rhizomes (root stock) from a home brew supply store or a place like freshops.combigkevj said:So how do you get a hops vine going?
kvh said:Use the Alton Brown (Good Eats) method of drying things - buy a few 20" x 20" furnace air filters (the zig-zag kind, not the squishy mesh kind). Fill all the crevices with hops, a different variety per filter... stack them up with an empty one on top, lay a box fan onto it, and bungie cord the whole contraption together. Turn on the fan and let run for a day or two... BAM! dry hops, and an awesome smelling house!
EdWort said:Frickin awesome! Thanks for a the great tip. It will take me about 15 minutes to do this and that includes the trip to Lowes.
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