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Yeah I bet. It lost a lot of energy by the time it made it here. Plenty of rain, though. Lots of water for the heavy nitrogen I put on my current hops.

I've noticed that the decreased perceived bitterness is irrelevant because of the increased flavor and aroma, as long as your malt profile isn't too cloying, i.e. Too much crystal malt.

Have you tried it with straight RO water to see how that tastes?

Yeah and it will still taste less bitter than calculated. So just be prepared for it to be under bittered. The flavor explosion may override that sensation.

Could be the hops you're using. Recipe?

Gotcha. I could have been a little more descriptive.

They are sandwiched between screens in a frame that I made and hang up in the pole barn with no heat other than the summer sun heating up the pole barn. It gets pretty warm in there and I open the two windows to let out the humidity.

Cool. I've been hanging and drying naturally in the pole barn. Takes about 3-4 days. When there's a full harvest in there in a couple of years I'll have to use the big ass fan we have.

You'll want to be careful using heat to dry the hops. How hot does the grain dryer get?

It is a gamble. Luckily this is only my third "job." I won't need to rely on it to eat and live.

You only need to trim rhizomes if they are getting too large. For a farm that has been established for years, they may need to do it every year. For us, it'll be a while before we need to do that. I have trimmed some of my 4 year old plants as some of the shoots have shown up pretty far away...

I've bought rhizomes for personal use from a few of the online store from the pnw. I harvest by hand. I only have about 15 plants currently so it's not too much to handle.

Well I'll share here when I find it.

I'm taking it slow, as I'm trying to reduce start up cost as much as possible. Where did you source your cabling?

I am in Robards, just south of Henderson. I have personally grown chinook, cascade, mt hood, galena, nugget, northern Brewer, and Columbus with success. I have failed with saaz and centennial. My hallertau rhizome came up this year from last year's small growth so we'll see about this year.

I use my currently grown galena in every aspect of brewing and it's a great all around hop.

Temperature differences of a couple of degrees can affect the production of esters and other flavor affecting chemicals. For some yeast these chemicals affect the beer in a good way, but for the most part they are off flavors. Once you taste one of your beers when you have controlled the...

I wish you the best. It could have been ambient temperature, kettle geometry, or a decrease in actual voltage at the end which decreased my total wattage, but my boil was always a stretch of the definition of rolling. It never bothered me, I just knew I was limited by that power to 5-6.5 gallon...

So far my prospective customers have only requested galena. I've been growing chinook for the past 4 years for personal use, so I'll probably expand that. Other than those, I haven't figured the other varietals out.

This will take a lot of time, but in the next couple of years I'll have finished setting up a commercial hop farm in the field pictured above. I'll be sourcing the poles from discarded power poles. They're free. I'll be doing all of the labor myself in my free time, I wasn't doing much anyway...