It's a good day; about 1/2 of the rhizomes I ordered from www.thymegarden.com have broken through the soil so I guess I better get the rest of the garden done and the twine strung. This is my first attempt at hops in central TX but based on Edwort's success and what Chris Colby spoke about on www.brewcrazy.com I hope to have moderate success. The BYO editor said that he's been successfully growing about 8 varieties in central TX and the 'C' varieties do well. One of the cool things is that I plan on trying to develop a method for relative quantitative determination of alpha acid content. I wish I could simply take a sample to work and use our analytical HPLC but I don't think the company would approve unless it was making them money.
Anyway, it's a good day to see the hops coming in and I hope we get a little rain this year so I don't have to use the drip irrigation all the time.
Anyone else have hops coming in yet?
Jeffrey
Anyway, it's a good day to see the hops coming in and I hope we get a little rain this year so I don't have to use the drip irrigation all the time.
Anyone else have hops coming in yet?
Jeffrey