Recent content by JClem73

Thanks for the input guys. I'm sure it had at least 3 days above 60 to actively ferment. So I guess I will still have active yeast to bottle condition when the time comes?

I brewed a Stone IPA clone with the liquid San Diego Super yeast last week and left 24 hours later on vacation for 4 days. My wife turned off the heat without telling me (because is was 72F in VA when we left; she didn't look at the weather) so my house and fermenter were down to a chilly 50F...

Mine 2nd & 3rd year cascades and nuggets are enjoying being in the ground for the first time. I plan on picking the top half this weekend and the secondary growth in late August.

The trellis was 'designed' by my mechanical engineer brother. He likes to have a solid base of support so we used were two 4"x4"x20's, 2"x4"s across the top and for support, & 240 pounds of quickcrete in the ground going about 4 feet down. Nothing fancy but 0% of it falling over into my house.

This will be my 3rd season growing hops in Suffolk VA (just west of Norfolk). I've only used containers so far but my 3rd years are going into ground this year. I started with 2 Cascade and 2 Nugget from Midwest supplies then added the same order the next year from Northwest Hops. They seemed...