Recent content by Bitterweed

I filled the back of my pickup this morning with hops, drove 60 miles to the lavender farm where my hops would become "liquid gold" we ran the still 2 times longer than what he does with his lavender, the result... 10 gallons hydrosol and 1 oz of pure oil... Granted if everything was perfect...

I am going to do a 50 gallon batch of Nuggets on sunday... fingers are crossed! I will post pics......

Yes..... I dig mine, pull out grass/weed roots, trim, cut rhizomes for new hills, add compost and replant .. it is very time consuming, the bonus is you can have several 3rd year plants.. the finger size rhizomes still take a couple years..it seems I can't grow any perennial that doesn't require...

I have NEO1, Amalia and multihead. The multihead is my least favorite of the 12 varieties I do grow.. I live at about 350ft elevation zone 7a.. Toledo Wa. I am going to let it just ramble this year rather than force it up a line. I grow organic and have had no trouble with any of my hops getting...

tettnanger 12.8 multihead 8.9 NEO1 14.2 9 varieties to go 626.5 running total

I am growing NEO1, Multihead and Amalia, this is their 2nd year, the multihead is the only one of the three that I am not liking... NEO1 I am considering for a 80 ft row.. I grow low trellis, the NEO1 has the best low laterals. I am in Toledo WA.

10 oz NEO1 12 oz Amalia 2.5 oz Galina .5 oz Nugget .5 oz Sterling 1.2 oz Tettnang 3 oz Pride of Ringwood. Multihead may not beat the fall rains.. all first year plants..

I have a lot of good ? stuff in the way and want to make it into a drinkable beer. I am looking for sugestions for which hops to use. available in the pantry... 1.5 lbs crystal 80 1.5 lbs peated 2 lbs light DME 2 lbs Dark DME 3 lbs amber malt (liquid) in the freezer.... cascade hops...