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Anybody in Portland OR getting growth out of their hops? This rain is killing me. Got about 3' on a Zeus, but my Willamette and Magnum are only about 12" or so, which seems way behind from what I saw last year (all plants are 2nd years). Just curious if anyone else in NW is having better success...

great advice on the dough in. Makes perfect sense in hindsight. Will be adding that to my brew day for sure.

yeah thought i was overthinking it

Maybe I'm sweating the minutia here, but when splitting a 10 gal batch into 2 carboys does it matter if carboy 1 gets the bottom half of the kettle and carboy 2 gets the top half? After the boil everything is well mixed, but would one carboy tend to get more trub than the other - does it even...

I get the better to have it than not mentality, but how much headspace are you guys leaving? I go 5 or 5.5 gallons in a 6 gallon carboy and seems like I've never even really been close to blowing through the airlock.

One of my plants has an exposed root bulb like that as well. I think the soil settled or got washed away in a heavy rain or something. no harm to the shoots, all looks good, so probably nothing to worry about on yours.

thanks smagee, i'll give it a whirl. I like hop heavy beers, so I think i'll drop all the Cascades in at 60. The Willamettes are definitely better when used under 30 mins. I've had a couple batches where I had them in for the entire boil and both didn't turn out that great. I'm not exactly sure...

I have the following hops on hand looking to get an all grain recipe together - 1 oz Golding 2 oz Cascade 4 oz Willamette also have some harvested Wyeast 1056 that I want to use. looking for grain suggestions and what the hop addition schedule should look like.

so...did the blowoff work? was it even needed?

that blowoff should do the trick...what is that a carlo rossi jug??

About 3 weeks ago I took my first shot at yeast washing and was pretty careful to follow all the standard protocals I found throughout these threads; boiled my water and mason jars, cooled the water overnight, washed twice, kept the jars covered while they settled, and ended up with what looked...