Recent content by Gerhardt

I guarantee you they'll emerge with vigor. Hey, if you wanted more you could just finish ripping the crowns in half and plant both!

Get ahold of your county extension agent or visit the nearest farmers cooperative. The co-op I live near sell sacks of both 2-row malting barley and 6-row feed barley for planting. Winter barley is a common cover crop in many areas so a co-op should carry it around planting time. They usually...

I had to transplant 2 of my 1 year old crowns this year. I transplanted them around the first of February to their new home and I poked around in the soil last week and they already had a couple of new buds deep on the crown. You really should be fine to transplant whenever. Just be careful...

No, it's just really not going to matter. You're talking about a difference of like 2-3 cubic centimeters. In any given batch I bottle, some are just to the neck, others are almost to the cap. This is home brewing, not factory bottling. Your problem may very well be contamination, so...

Depending on the yeast strain and conditions, the production of sulfur compounds is totally normal. The use of additional sugar will purge any sulfur containing gasses from the headspace but won't actually remove any compounds dissolved in the beer. Yeast is very good at cleaning up sulfur...

2/3 cup table sugar for 5 gallons is a pretty good way to start before using a calculator. So a heaping 1/3 cup would be appropriate. Or if using corn sugar, 3 oz dextrose for 3 gallons. If this seems like how much you are using and still getting gushers or bombs, the issue is that you are...

I always use dish soap. You just have to be certain to rinse very well. The issue is that if any soap residue is left in any glassware, it acts as a surfactant, reduces surface tension, and destroys any head your beer would have. Oxiclean, if not rinsed well, would actually be even worse...

You can always use glass etching cream and a stencil. I have used it with great results in the past, you can make your own stencils and go to town. You can also use it to create a nucleation site on the bottom of the glass since it roughens the surface.

You are adding more fermentables so you will boost the ABV of the final product, though it may be slight. If you want to do the calculations yourself you certainly can and actually calculate the volume of alcohol added exactly by the additional fermentation. Are you using sucrose, dextrose, or...

I use a baster that I picked up at that grocery for $1.27, it leaks if held vertically so after I take my sample and tip it upside down as I remove it from the carboy so the sample moves into the bulb. No mess that way and if you don't return it to the fermenter, nothing to worry about from...

Would anyone be interested in swapping rhizomes, hop starts, split crowns, field grade plants, or full crowns? I have Centennial and Mt. Hood 1 year old crowns and would like to trade for some other cultivars, assuming I have any rhizomes this year.