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Should be really good. What's your water like were you live? Or did you use bottled/distilled? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

If it's the first year for the Tettnang, I'd give it another before fretting. I had one plant do well and another was stunted. Hallertau is doing well, along with Magnum in Northern Oregon. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Try the Yakima Valley in Washington. Can you say Road Trip? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

You win some and you lose some, I guess. Keep on truckin Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I would be inclined to boil longer to hit OG target. That way I'm not adding to the recipe. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Veterans, I've finished my harvest a couple weeks ago and am wondering when to trim back the stocks. I've left them for a while thinking the extra time may help the roots establish better on these first year plants. What say you? Trim back now or else? Thanks in advance. Sent from my iPhone...

Just bring up your recipe and hit the copy button. it will copy it to the cloud. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Does anyone have a home method for gauging the AA% of their homegrown hops? My guess is to sniff or soak some in water. I suppose some known ~AA% hops are needed to calibrate you're senses? Thanks Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

My first lager, an Oktoberfest, I pitched 1 wyeast pack, no starter. It took quite some time to actual start fermenting. However, it started and finished just fine. The beer came good, it just took longer. My advice is to just give it time to do it's thing and you'll have good beer. HTH...

The key to balancing the banana/clove is pitch rate and fermentation temp. Given your target, I would under pitch just by a little and ferment at around 70 degrees. Lower pitch rates will cause the yeast to multiply more, hence produce more banana. Over pitching will give you more clove...

Your first approach is fine. Getting the wort below 80, before oxygenating it avoids oxygen binding to the wort and causing hot side aeration. Your comments in #2 are correct.

I think it's a Stinkbug also. They seemed to like/feed on the lupulin. I've also noticed them on new blossoms. I think they are turning the cones brown. I've declared war and am picking them off.

There are many of these bugs that showed up on my hops lately. Should I keep them or um a relocate them? Any idea the bug. Mug shot included. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Where do you live? Asking bc I'm curious about the climate. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

That seems right to me. Especially with low mash temps. Shouldn't need to lager it much, since it's not dextrinous. 3-7 days should do it. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Thanks for the feedback. When you say overwhelmed with hops, do you mean the smell of the hops? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Thanks for the feedback. When you say overwelmed, do you mean the smell of the hops? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Veteran hops growers: This is my first year growing hops and they have come in good so far. But they have no smell. Some have been cones for awhile, but still no scent. I live in Oregon and have been watering them everyday. I wonder if I need to back off the watering to let them go to the...

I'll take it. I live in Oregon and can meet up in Eugene. How do we coordinate from here? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Here's my trellis I put together last spring. I bought a couple polls (21 feet) from a hop farm. I planted them 3 feet in the ground, giving me 18 feet to grow hops. I used 2x6 for the bed and filled it in with 4-way dirt. The box is 10' x 4'. Taking the guidance of varietal separation, It...