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Did that last time I was there. Unfortunately this is an arrive on Monday, leave on Friday business trip.

Welcome! Several Colorado folks here and a lot of knowledge. Reading everything written by Yooper is a good way to start.

And I am going next week. Gotta love a place where beer and water are the same price

Director of EAM consulting... which really means I teach, consult, staff, listen to problems, occasionally solve problems, and don't brew enough Previously - maintenance manager at a oat plant, system engineer at a nuclear plant, Navy nuclear officer, bartender, dishwasher, butchers assistant...

If you want to go the mead route, here is a great recipe that I am sure you can get all the ingredients locally https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=49106

A yeast alternative I tried was sourdough starter. It had about 90% attenuation and gave a flavor very similar to what an English ale yeast gives. In fact, although the recipe was for a malty pale ale, the result tested very much like an English brown. I put in about a cup and a half of...

Mead is notoriously difficult to get a good OG reading as the honey does not mix well. The calculated gravity bernardsmith gave will be much closer.

What percentage crab apple juice do you use? I used 25% last year (no apples this year due to late frost) and it was too tart for my taste.

Bumping this for one more try. Saturday they go in the compost to free freezer space.

I have done both and I now use the zest and meat method. Looking back with more experience now I am not so sure it was all pith that made the first batch need time. My first batch, which had the pith, was fermented at a higher temp and also had some jet fuel qualities besides a bitter bite...

I have several packs of vacuum sealed Chinook hops. They were dried, vacuum packed and frozen within 24 hours of picking. I have 4 packages, 5 oz., 3oz, 6 oz. and 5.5 oz. I also have a few oz of 2016 crops that have been frozen since vacuum packing last year. Take as much as you want for the...

Although I can't say I have noticed it, I like just a bit of that Simcoe cat pee dankness, so I have not worried should my chinook give a hint. Chinook for dankness and clean bitter with cascade to brighten it up just a bit. You can't go wrong.

From what I have read 20 minutes and 30 both would have the drawback of not enough boil for full isomerization and yet enough to boil off aroma and most flavor. Why are you concerned about too much at 60? Because I grew a bunch I have been using Chinook for all my bittering and it has...

Wish you had asked about a rhizome a week ago. I have barrier fabric around the hops and I pulled up a 3 ft chunk of root with green growth on the end that had run between two layers of cloth. You could have fall planted that and probably gotten a small harvest next spring.

I didn't mean to move the 1 minute to 5. It was to move the 30 minute to 5 minutes to get more flavor and aroma out of that addition. The more I read the more I am cutting out any additions between 59 minutes and 10. Seems those middle additions don't boil long enough to get full...

How about Saturday at 11:15? Do you prefer honey or beer in trade?

My two unsolicited cents worth, and not worth a penny more. The 30 minute Cascade is not going to do much. I would move it to a 5 or 10 minute addition and then up the 60 minute chinook addition to make up the IBU. Either way it looks like a great beer. Similar to my summer house pale ale...

70 lb of chokecherries, wow you are the master. those little berries take serious commitment to harvest. FYI if you have a bit extra of the juice, freeze it and drop a cube in a glass of bourbon. so good.

Thanks. My chinook are beasts as well. First up, first up to the top and bines the size of a finger. If you make mead I could also trade honey. I expect to harvest over 200 lb of honey this year.

For the back sweetening I would use honey, not sugar, to give it more honey flavor. I would also check the gravity. Mead is notorious for stuck fermentation, so it might not really be dry. If it has a 1.020 gravity then no need to sweeten unless you want even more. As a general rule...