Recent content by Baunno

Oh yea, my carboys could use one of these!

Second year hop garden..and so far the Kent Goldings are taking over! The others, Cascade, Willamette,Centennial and Horizon are coming along but no where near the Goldings. Last year I only had the tripods for them but since the Goldings are now over 8feet tall as of 4-23-09 I decided to add...

The Kent Golding has reached the top of the tripod and beginning to reach over to the trellis as of 4-23-09. The bines are as thick as a sharpie!

front left - Willamette rear left - Cascade center - Kent Golding rear right - Centennial front right - Horizon

Do it this week! Or as soon as possible. My bines are a couple of feet tall already and I'm hoping to have a pretty good crop this year. Good luck!!

Another view of my over the top aeration! I am using a 2 micron stone attatched to a aquarium pump...only run it for 1 hour but this is what I found after 45 minutes...whoa!

Finished brewing this afternoon and set the aeration stone in the fermenter. Went down to the MC 45 minutes later and this is what I found! Holy crap batman, the hops have turned into chiffon!

This looks interesting, please do post the tasting results! I am about to take off the training wheels and go AG and porter is my choice of brew. I've been kit brewing for years so know my way around pretty well so I don't think I'm going to scrape my knees up too bad..yea like falling off a...

I took a few pics of the spring this morning. I took a half gallon of it yesterday and boiled it for 15 minutes, let it cool and tasted. Kind of muddy tasting..but then we has hard rain earlier in the week and the dry creek isn't so dry right now. Another thing I'll do is fit a trough at the...

Long shot showing the spring flows into

Medium shot showing the spring flowing out of the hill.

Close up of the year round spring flowing out of the hill side. Middle Tennessee

I’ve watched this spring for 3 or 4 years and even in the driest of times it continued to flow. It is near an old tobacco barn tucked in a hollow of the woods and behind it is an old excavation that says to me to have been dug for a spring. Somebody scratched the date of 1918 on a pole in the...

I live in a rural agricultural area in Tennessee and have a spring gushing water out of the side of a limestone hill on my property. I’d like to use it for brewing but am concerned with agricultural pesticides and fertilizer runoff contaminating the water. The hill side where this spring comes...

Agreed...been there, had that done to us...aint no fun at all. Just wait until the 5 -7 year old grows a little older and goes to DARE classes in middle school and starts talking about helping o'le dad on brew day. Oh yea, not so cute when a school guidance councilor calls and threatens to have...