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Quite the setup

Looks like a good start.

Yes, same here. Largely limited to places where we dine with good beer and vibe. Our HB club meetings rotate among locals so opportunity to explore available offerings.

Well stated, my success in HB has an effect, albeit negligible, on tap and retail sales @ my local and grocery store. As noted in a previous thread my favorite beers are the ones I brew

That was true back in the 70's as well. I generally preferred ice tea to go with my smoke. Really didn't fully embrace craft beer on its own terms until the 90's when my wife brought us some Pete's for a backyard cookout

Great points to refect on. I imagine producers will simply reallocate acreage to grow hops based on market trends. There will always be a place for C hops and other traditional varieties while some of these others will come and go. The process for developing new varieties and bringing them to...

One of my 1st beer recipe efforts was like that where I over hopped with Simocoe, Centennial, and a couple others. I have since become more attuned to calculating IBUs and sensory profiles. I'm thinking Centennial as my primary bittering hop with the combos @ 45, 15, and hopstand. Not sure on...

Good article and quick read. I don't think there's cause for doom and gloom. After all it's not like climate change where society has been in denial for 60 years.

Brewer's Friend meets all of my needs

Thanks I have used the classic Centennial Cascade combo previously looking toward a 2-hearted clone. Wanting something a bit brighter. I used Simcoe once in an earlier extract brew when I didn't know what I was doing.

Wanting to bump this thread into this decade to get current ideas on a hopping schedule and percentages for this combination in a 5 gallon brew, 70/30 (60/40, 50/50) @ 60 min, etc. Maybe dry hop Mosaic? Looking to keep IBUs 45to 65. Thoughts, commercial examples??

Make notes, get your result, decide on one software to use as a standard and work from there. I started out by hand calculation of my volumes and compare with the adjusted changes for efficency in my software. This has helped me be consistent brew to brew and predictable w/ a couple points...

I am sure you won't make that mistake again. Probably took me at least 5 brews before I exposed and learned from all of the erroneous information in "kit instructions". Now if I goof up, like forget to insert the racking tube in the fermenter, its totally on me. Its all a process to perfection...

yes, looking forward to using it next brew. Sturdy made piece of gear.

Grain mill day all around

Thumbs up on the brewbuckets. Very affordable when you average the initial investment over a lifetime of brews. Easy to clean and I bottle directly from the FV so no contamination from unnecessary transfer to bottle bucket.

Hops Kitchen IPA (citra/mosaic), 7.3% abv.

yes leaning that way. Single crush has given me ~59% and double ~69% +; Seems like more mess in the kettle with the smaller bits, etc.

Hungry Brown Dog, 5.5 gallons into fermenter @ 1.065 yesterday and off to the races today. Last week's IPA has finished where I want it so I trying to put the breaks on dialing back the temperature. As I am using the Spike steam lid now, I had to find an option for the hops spider so I tried...

So what. It makes for interesting reading. I am a university professor and often have to remind my students that there is a substantial amount of good research published before the typical 10 year window identified with modern search engines. I would like to know more about the 1830 book of...