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Really good question. Part of the reason for adequate spacing between hills is not only for root space, but also to allow the sidearms enough room laterally so that they have the room to spread out. This added area for leaves is added area for energy the plant is trying to capture to have what...

Copper tubing is a great conductor.

Could try a starter the night before you brew to see if they fire up, and if they do, you will have a better shot at getting enough cells for a proper start.

Any left? I could use 6-8. Ship to Cathlamet

This is our first “second year” at a test plot in the tropics. Is this normal.

They were a nice add. I made a few batches right off the bine, and dried the rest. Good fun using homegrown hops, nice flavor.

Hi Andy, Not sure on how to send a pm either but ok to send me @n email to [email protected] Thanks, Ian

I’ll take it. Pls mail usps priority to Ian Langevin P.O. Box 6523 Kamuela HI 96743 Pay pal ok?

As a follow up, a few of the varietals have produced well, primarily Cascades, but the CTZ also threw some beefy cones. These are still first year plants, so not sure if they will behave the same without a "winter" next year, but looking forward to figuring out an optimal harvest date.

First year test plots appear to burr/ cone ok, but various cultivars obviously do better than others. It's been written that it is not so much the length of daylight as the length of darkness that induces the process by where they (the plants) trigger a dormancy period, allowing their normal...

Throw in a couple hops.

3522 tends to fire off pretty aggressively, typically almost double the krausen. It will settle back almost as quick.

I have both an immersion, and a plate chiller. The immersion goes into the igloo cooler with as much ice as I can muster, feeding ground water through this prior to it's trip through the plate, allows for about a 80 degree delta through the plate at about 2 gpm. I recirc through the plate back...

Living some place warm? dough in and once you are happy with your temp, just wrap it up in a towel and then a blanket, and then cover the whole thing up with a plastic trash can and leave it alone. I usually lose less than 1-2 degrees over an hour. Mash is thicker than water., and tends to hold...

For what its worth...I have done ice baths, (slow) immersion chillers (tap water only) dual stage immersion chillers (one in ice, one in wort) and all of the above are a relatively long process to get to pitching temps. Then came the plate chiller. Make the investment in a pump and a plate...

Sanitation, diligence with fermenting temps, yeast selection, trial and error with the same process and recipe, good notes to look back on, and patience, patience, patience.

"Originally Posted by billdog So I was a little toasty durring my last brew day. As a result I added my dry hops to the primary at the same time I added the wert and yeast. This was my first experience with the whole "dry Hopping" thing, so did I reaslly screw up the batch? What ill effects...