Recent content by dimperdoo

Yes, I'm a little intimidated by this whole process! Threshing/cleaning is going to be interesting at the very least. Plus, I see that people have failed at malting -a little disconcerting. I'm planning for success though! Really, there is no hop choice this year. I'm using the folks hops...

my recipe will probably be fairly simple. My folks have hops growing @ their place. Next spring, I'll probably do this again and start specific strains of hops. The folks' might not be all that good for beer. I actually could use some recommendations for hops strains -as well as which...

yeah - malted, I knew there was something I ran through earlier when I was planning this (last year) I even read through a tutorial -they had sprout then dry in the oven then screen it off or something like that. Can't remember where I saw it? Or, what you screen off and what you save.

oh, I'm referring to "grown organic" My plot pictured in post 2 is essentially "trash farming" The only thing I do is run that spring tooth around, lime & fishbone meal, and seed it to clover for a plowdown crop. This year, I seeded a couple areas to oats and barley to see how it's doing...

umm, bump?

Hi! This is my introductory post -but, I thought since I'm working on this plan, I'd post my plan here in beginning brewer's... I'm just about to harvest some barley (robust) and oats (rodeo) grown specifically to brew my own beer. My plan is to employ deathbrewer's easy stovetop method...