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Welcome back to the hobby from a Texas Brewer.

I know where Shandong is. I have been there to visit a company called Chalco (aluminum smelter) in Zibo city years ago. I think they may have shut that particular plant down back in 2018 due to high energy costs but I'm not certain since I haven't been to China since 2016. Hey, maybe we can...

Welcome back from a Texas brewer.

knock on wood........zero so far out of about 50 brews. I've had some great, some better than others, some average, but no tossers yet. That includes mead and rice wine too.

Got the last of the hops rhizomes in pots today. A total of 31 Rhizomes in 16 pots over the past couple days. 20- B Grade unlabelled hops, 5 Cascades, 1 Nugget, 5 Centennials. I should have gotten the other C hops too (Columbus and Chinook) as I'm told the C hops do better in this area. I...

Welcome to the forum from a Texas Brewer. My Chinese Mother in Law used to make beer and rice wine. Where are you located in China? I spent decades working over there.

Welcome to the forum from a Texas Brewer.

Welcome to the forum from a Texas Brewer.

Painted a bunch of black pots white to plant hops in (so they stay cooler in the Texas Heat). Planted 1 huge centennial and 4 other medium centennial hops rhizomes. I have 5 medium Cascades and 20 smaller unidentified mixed B grade rhizomes to go. I had thought they were cascades but then...

Doing my last extract batch tomorrow, using my rinsed yeast and adding my bountiful handful of hops harvest after the boil.:yes:

Welcome to the brewing spot, where the beer is cold and brewing tips hot. Grab your thermometer, and the hydrometer. Forget the drinkometer, Mines pegged at "ALOT" .

Yep, that's why I call it yeast "rinsing". You can rinse it at home. I may even try redrying some to make Ri-Re (Rinsed-Redried) yeast to see if I can keep it around longer.

I was going back and forth thinking about doing that. I didn't because I usually throw the yeast on top (I do ales).I have one of those cheap chinese conical 8 gallon fermenters (which work well BTW). I figured I'd leave the first 2 or 3 batches until the trub/yeast gets up near the port, then...

Hi All, I tried my hand at yeast rinsing. I discarded the top layer (beer) some of which resettled out, kept the middle layer (creamy white yeast) which I poured into a sterilized and cooled jar and discarded the bottom trub layer (darker brown like peanut butter). I will use this in less than...

I think I got enough for a pony bottle (8 0z.) 🤣 I will throw this in my next batch after the boil for some flavor. They got full sun. I'm about 30 degrees latitude ( 5 degrees too far south) and they say hops grow well more than 35 degrees latitude, so growing ANY at all here is a bonus. This...

Saw my 2 vines of cascade were ripe. This is my first year.. I'm planting the other rhizomes in pots for the first year and will transplant in the spring.

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Welcome back to the hobby from a Texas brewer.