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yeh, we've already got permits to pump out from the river to fill our duck pond, so they should appyly to a piece of 1" pvc. this is a big river with no trout. but I am all about being legit, thanks.

ok, so if that is the case then gravity feed will work fine. now i just have to find a better way of moving the water from the river to the holding tank. How about if the water wheel is directly hooked up to a water pump which will fill the tank slowly all day. this takes a few steps out of...

Does anyone have experience with pumping water out of a river for irrigating a field of hops? I'm off the grid and thinking of building a water wheel to power an alternator, which will charge a bank of batteries to run a 12 volt pump. right now i'm using a gas pump to fill a 250 gal tank which...

I've got 30 hop plants. i'm definatley going to plant some winter wheat varieties, they can double as a deer food plot.

i've got 4 varieties of hops growing in south carolina, but now i'm thinking barley varieties. its almost time to plant so I need barley seed asap. what am I looking for? 2 row? 6 row? both? how about wheat, and rye, and fruits i've got an up and running farm and the sky is the limit so what...

ok, i've read about 50 threads and I made my first cider. I used: 7 jugs of "simply apple" juice, roughly 3 1/2 gallons. 3.3 lbs. muntons wheat malt extract 24 oz. organic brown sugar 12 oz. south carolina honey safe-ale 04 yeast my O.G. was 1.070 so i'm expecting around 8% abv. i'm...

I see... so I should have 2 gallons or so heating on the stove top for sparge water, and not just re circulate my mash? anyway, I just picked up three lbs. of dry malt extract. I'm going to ferment it separetly and combine them at bottling time. thanks for the help.

I'm using an electric turkey fryer with a heating element about an inch off the bottom of the cooker. I heat the water to 170 degree's and drain from the ball valve at the bottom of the cooker over the grain bed in my mash tun. the mash tun has a cpvc grid at the bottom with holes facing down...

My local Homebrew store milled it for me., i've had my grain milled there before with no problem. and the grain looked good and crushed, and had a good aroma. Would I be better off leaving it alone and have a low alcohol beer with alot of hoppiness... or should I mix a few lbs. of diluted malt...

I just did an all grain terrapin rye squared clone and my hydrometer says 1.035. what may have gone wrong and how can I fix it? heres what i did... Terrapin rye squared IPA clone 9 lbs. Pale malt 2 lbs. Rye malt ½ lbs. Honey malt ¼ lbs. Chocolate malt pitched to grain at 170 degree's...

a local metal scrap yard will most likely have some gauge stainless for like $1.50 a pound. go green, recycle.

i'm growing a few varieties in SC but no fuggles or goldings. Only problems i'm having are jap beetles and the heat, these 100 degree days and are no good, i've got mine in partial shade by the river. Cascades turned out nice, i've got a batch goin right now with some wheat I grew last winter...

thanks for the replies, I took down the traps and chunked em in the garbage. I will definately look into grub control, and continue to take out beetles by hand. Im not even considering spraying chemicals on my developing hops, i've already picked 8 oz. so hopefully i'm just outgrowing the little...

haha, i am reluctant to put japanese beatles anywhere near my blender, those things stink so bad they'll make a blind man scream armeggedon. and the smell just never goes away. I squash them with my fingers whenever I see them. I moved my beatle traps (3) to the other side of the field. but i've...

the easy way to siphon is fill a plastic tube about 4 feet long X 1/2" with hot water. 1) Pinch the hose off on both ends of the water. 2) Elevate Carboy over keg or seconday 3) realease the water at the bottom into a bowl or somethin till the beer starts flowing, transfer to whatever...

i've got a japanese or oriental beetle problem in my hop yard, i've got 30 plants over 120 ft. i've got three beetle traps evenly spaced, and i dont want to use any pesticides since my of my plants are putting on cones... any ideas? how about planting something nearby that repels or attracts them?

dude, I use 1 oz. per 5 gallons of star san, correct me if i'm using too much but i'm zero out of three for infections.

I just kegged my second batch, a Belgian wheat ale. my last batch took a few days to carbonate, is there any way to speed up the process? shake the keg?

i've been using bird guano for early growth, and bat guano for flowering time. its organic and potent, you can get it on the internet or at a hydroponic store if you can find one.