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This is my first attempt at growing hops. I have four varieties, all grown from rhizomes. From left to right: Chinook, Centennial, Columbus, and Cascade. The Chinook rhizomes are struggling. I am considering ordering a live plant if they don't push something up soon.

For better or worse, I decided to trim it. I'll check back in a few weeks and let you know how the plant is doing.

Howdy everyone. This is my first attempt at growing hops. I have several plants, all grown from rhizomes. I messed up and crimped the bine for my Columbus plant when I was training it. The thing is still growing like mad, but the leaves are noticeably more yellow above the crimp. The bine...

Howdy everyone. This is my first attempt at growing hops. I have several plants, all grown from rhizomes. I messed up and crimped the bine for my Columbus plant when I was training it. The thing is still growing like mad, but the leaves are noticeably more yellow above the crimp. The bine...

I am brewing my first Belgian style ale. I am using the Pranqster clone from this HBD thread: http://hbd.org/hbd/archive/4500.html I increased the malt bill by 25% to try and push that ABV up over 8%. I am using yeast I harvested from some Pranqster bottles last week.

@PhelanKA7, there is a lot about brewing I do not realize. I'm at day 7 now and the air lock is still bubbling away. Interestingly, the yeast has reversed its direction of rotation. You say that off gassing can last after fermentation. What about the swirling convection activity? Is that...

Thanks everyone. I have never seen fermentation stay this active for this long, but then again, I am using a new yeast with a much bigger grain bill than I have used before.

Hey all, I'm sure this has already been discussed in the forum, but I do not know the correct vocabulary to find it. The gist of the situation is that my yeast is still churning away after 6 days of fermentation. What I mean by "churning" is that I can still see convection occurring inside...

We are brewing this Racer 5 clone, the second one in the first post: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/bear-republic-racer-5-recipe-8241/index2.html