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As far as I know both spit and beer kill germs. Go for it!

I love the D. I take the family up there for Woodward Dream Cruise each year (business related), and we've hit the Woodward Ave Brewery and Atwood. I'll check out Dragonmead-- I always assumed from the name of the place that it was mostly mead. Thanks for the enlightenment.

Ease of harvest is a great idea. I actually saw the top of the trellis once I got online with the computer. My phone wasn't showing the whole photo. Nice work.

Hilarious. Echoes of the Dan Akroyd Bass-o-Matic sketch.

Thanks for the explanation!

OUCH. Savor those sips.

Holy crap. I don't homebrew just for the savings, but sometimes I just feel like I'm getting gouged when I head to a bar, and I'm glad I can make a fine beer for the price of BMC. I'm in downtown Cleveland, and we just got this flyer from our management company. $5 a pint for Craft Beer, Happy...

I have been charged, by the wife, to make sure our hop garden is absolutely gorgeous. She's seen online photos of hope plants that look like a 50's sci-fi monster eating houses. I am on board with that, and this design looks pretty amazing. Any experienced growers out there know if hops will...

That looks killer, like a backyard metal sculpture. Will the hops travel that path? I have never grown them so I have no idea how "sticky" the tendrils are on the vine. Also, at double that height will it start to lean once the hops are full of cones?

Nice trellis. Reminds me of a Japanese Torii.

I have bought two Craigslisted Turkey Fryers to get me outdoors over the past eight years. I gave the first away (no problems), and the second is going strong after a year of monthly use. If you are into lo-tech brewing, I'd say that scheme works fine. The 7 gallon pots that come with them are...

Quradraphonic headphones? If that's a real thing, I'll have to try it. I do enjoy the fade from ear to ear on headphones, but I always miss the bass in my belly.

I am waiting for that day. I serve my kids (12, 10, 4) up great music from the past five decades and they roll their eyes. For me Floyd: Wish you Were Here, for sure. Have played this on acoustic hundreds of times in my basement (not on stage!). Great Gig in the Sky has to be my all time fav...

Gorgeous garden. My wife wants me to make sure the trellis is attractive, and this is a great example. Can you post a pic of the top of your trellis??

The reference to the snow was just a comment on the odd weather we had yesterday, or is snow in late April normal for everyone? Ha. They're not going to have leaves to be damaged by the cold for a while, and I'll take my chances that it wony frost in May. When I looked at the little buggers in...

It snowed this morning, so I thought I'd better get my rhizomes in the ground. I've got a pretty big yard for the city in Cleveland, but limited sunlight, so there's room for two plants. I chose Willamette and Cascade. Northern Brewer set me up with a fat budding Willamette rhizome and two solid...

PS I think 22 oz to 12 oz will be fine. Let us know how it goes.

I have to admit, I was sloppy in my process since i knew it wasn't a full-blown batch. I mashed two-row on the stove, appx one gallon batches that I split, and them steeped the specialty grain in hp backs before the boil. I only did one bittering hop edition. The idea came from Basic Brewing...

Yeah, 85 would throw you off. Check out this site for a conversion calculator http://kotmf.com/beer/tools/ You could add the honey, but it would thin out the beer and throw off a pretty balanced recipe. The age of the grains shouldn't matter at a week. As a wise person said once, malted...

These are what I did my mini experiments in. Fermented and primed in same vessel, no racking. A friend gave me these amazing giant swing tops. I'm a little worried about the thin glass that they are made of when it's under pressure. At first the residue from the krausen bothered me, but these...