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Well I got my raised bed/hop trellis built this weekend. Went pretty smoothly until my gal saw the poles and completely freaked out! I assured her it will look much better in a month! The raised bed is HUGE, so we will get pletny of use out of that for tomoatoes, peppers, herbs etc.. Should be...

Bummer! I recently lost my first 5 gallons of beer. broke a full fermentor. I bumped a co2 tank into a 6.5 gallon glass carboy full of IPA! Beer and glass everywhere! :mad:

Looking out my window at work in Eden Praire, MN. BLOWING SNOW ?!?!? WHAT THE?? Tomorrow I am building a raised bed/hop trellis. It's gonna be 20' long by 3' wide and about 2' high. This snow in May thing is SUPER weak. supposed to warm up Sunday for good (crossing fingers) :mad:

definitely joking

+1 GLH is the bomb

These buggars are already growing bines 3 feet long! Planitng them in the ground on Saturday. I will be sure to post pics of their progress throughout the year. :ban:

this was my problem

Is this true? I thought a Dextrin malt was different than the Crystal and Caramel specialty malts??

that was my thinking exactly. the weird thing was, you know when your wort first starts to boil you get a lot of of foam that rises up, then after a couple minutes of boiling it goes away? well that happened, but then when the wort was re-circulating through my plate chiller and chilling down...

Yesterday I brewed a recipe from Jamil's "Brewing the Classic Styles" book. It was the Janet's Brown Ale recipe. The recipe called for 1.25 Lbs of CaraPils Dextrinous Malt for a 5.5 gallon batch. I brew 11 gallon batches, and normally wouldn't use more that 1 pound for 11 gallons. I used 2...

I am starting to collect yeast for a 'Yeast Bank'. One way I have been collecting strains is by pouring some starter wort into freshly emptied WL vials. I have been dumping the vials out into an appropriate starter, then topping them off with some starter wort and LOOSELY cap or top with foil...

+1 to GL Hops! I got the 7 Crowns I ordered plus 1 'Crystal' hop crown. Cant wait to get em in the ground! Anyone know anything about Crystal Hops ?? Never heard of them.

yeah, WAY bigger than I expected. What did they give you for your "Lucky Dog?"

Recieved my order a few days agao, got them potted last night (still waiting for snow to melt in MN). I ordered 7 crowns - 3-Columbus 3-Glacier & 1-Nugget. They threw in an extra "Lucky Dog" crown of the Crystal variety.

I ordered 7, and received 8. The extra was a variety I had never heard of, (Crystal) and one listed as 'out of stock.' These guys rock!

"Ferocious" from Midwest Supplies. AWESEOME!!!!

yeah those cascades will mellow out considerably after a few weeks

Ahhh Drauflassen...

Huh?

Brau Brothers Scotch Ale ... terrible, terrible, terrible!