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I second the idea of hitting up a nursery. It can be cheaper too for many things. For example, I could buy dried rosemary at the super for 200 yen, or get a live plant for the same price that has more leaves on it and is fresh. Coriander you can buy seed for, but seeds are usually overpriced...

Hey! Hope you like brewing! Good luck with your first batches! Will you be starting with extract or jumping straight into all-grain? Its still pretty hot for brewing at least for a few weeks in Yokosuka, but I will be starting up again pretty soon too. In the meantime I am drinking the last...

Welcome to the thread! Its been quiet in here this summer probably many of us are having some down time with our brewing due to the heat. You are close enough to Okinawa to perhaps meet up with the brewers there sometime I suppose! I am still pretty basic myself, I have one recipe I...

Welcome aboard! There are definitely Okinawa brewers and you will be able to find their group on FB mostly, not so much on HBT. I have never been down to Oki but like someone said, check out pizzakaya. I sent a couple hops rhizomes to a manager of the place back in the spring, she was passing...

Grow update time! Magnum took the spider mites like a champ, I didn't use pesticides but they subsided with a couple mistings of water. Hops are mature and ready to pick today. Centennial - I have selectively picked off a handful of ready cones and will pick more today. After watching some...

Quick note: here is a jockey box build using a Japanese server for the parts - http://www.geocities.jp/skywave650_secvt/svr2.html Cheers!

Hops and -!SPIDER MITE UPDATE!- Guys a heads up that I found some spider mites on my Magnum here. Please check any plants you have gotten from me to be safe. I took the cuttings long before any sign of mites and they were stored away from the main plant so it should be fine. I am going to...

I Bought a second hand STC-1000 unit a few months back and it did not come with a probe. I could not locate a probe that I could buy and have shipped to my location so with some searching on here and other sites I found the specs for the probe and decided to try building my own. I confirmed...

I assumed that was the case and had later found some info indicating Japanese outlets were identical to US versions aside from the small voltage difference. I went ahead and wired it up and had the sensor working quite well. It was keeping within 0.5 degree C of my Tanita digital thermometer...

Hey guys, I am wiring my STC 1000 today and all the diagrams I see are mentioning live/neutral wires. I have a 2 part question. First, are the Japanese 2 prong wall outlets wired with hot/live slot on the right and neutral on the left like NA outlets? Secondly, if there is a chance that the...

Well, here is an update with pictures! I had to pull the cuttings from the yard next door - the owner only wants weeds growing it turns out. Motainai! Centennial is starting to flower finally! everything is quite healthy and I am no longer in fear of losing my homestead hops (for now). That...

My Hops

I am going to only start shopping once I have the stc 1000 running. So you might be getting yours before me. The probe parts I bought are shipping China Post so it could be 3 weeks before they even arrive. Anyway, I did a search a while back on Rakuten and theres a ton of appliances on there...

I bought these (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/10pcs-10k-OHM-NTC-Thermistor-Resistor-NTC-MF52AT-10K-5-3950-1/578460062.html) and am waiting for them to ship. I should be able to get my temp controller working with one of these thermistors as the temp probe. I will probably order a chest...

Brad, I gave up on my beer plan and decided to try it out as a wine instead. I stupidly decided to add a bunch of ume too, so it is pretty much too sour to drink. However at 14% abv it should be fine to age for a while and mellow. Perhaps I can blend it with another wine down the road, or...

Welcome to "the thread"! Good on you for putting so much into it, are you hoping to stay on in Japan after your JET program? Just a heads up to check fittings if you are having stuff sent over. CO2 Gas cylinders can have different standards from different countries.

The biggest glass umeshu jars I have seen are 8 liters. I have a few 5 L ones. I bought one and the rest I found at the "large trash pile" one day last summer - I think a few people throw them out after ume ferment so keep your eyes peeled and you might score few like I did!

Thanks surume, I peeled the skins and seeds, and grabbed the membranes as much as possible. Freezing them now to rupture the cells and hold them while I work on a recipe. Measured the biwa juice in case anyone needs this info: 9 degrees Brix/1.035 SG It was an excuse to use the refractometer:D

How do you think you will do the biwa ale? I ordered wheat malt and yeast a month ago (just got it) and today spotted a great big biwa tree at an abandoned house. After reading your post I am thinking of going back and getting some fruit and doing something like that too, it sounds good! PS -...

I really had a sorry bunch of ume from my neighbour. He has a picking party but it looks more like a piniata party with them whacking the fruit off the {100 year old?} tree with sticks. We cut off a ton of cracked areas of the fruit, but still a few began to look like they were going bad after...