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Centennial was the 1st to start cones and the 1st to be picked. I got 13.75 oz(wet) out of this 1st year centennial. They are drying now.

On my chinook 1st year I cut everything back but 4 bines. I have been trying to cut back all new starts so the energy can go to the 4 bines. On my cascade and centennial I did not do this and they are bushy at the bottom. You can see from the pics I posted about a week back. I would say...

I think the best option would be to get some dual purpose hops that you like. This way they can be used for more than 1 thing.

Hop pic update. Pics from last week. Dog wanted to play with my Chinook :( so I only have 1 run right now. Chinook, Columbia,Centennial and Cascade

Pics taken 5/30 I had to put chicken wire around most of my hops as the rabbits liked them Cascade and Centennial are more like a bush right now. Cascade is the slowest right now. Centennial is about to make its 1st turn. Columbia is doing ok. Chinook is doing the best out of the 4. This one I...

Basic Brewing Radio had a good interview(March 3, 2016 - Springtime Hop Care) and thats what Im going to following almost to a T. Our home brew club also had a grower in and he said about the same. Here is some of the stuff: Start adding fertilizer once a week after 12” tall Start training 2nd...

If anyone wants to take a look I just put up my hop update video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zATkYrSaSak

Update Pics. Pics taken 4/26/16. Cascade, Centennial, Columbia and Chinook

Hop update. So we had snow on Sat. Pics are from Sunday. Today we are also getting snow so I put dirt on top of them. Chinook, Columbia, Cascade and Centennial

I was going to take some update pics today but here in Michigan it has been snowing all day long. I hope my hops make. They are all up.

Im a 1st year grower also but from what i have been reading. You should cut everything back until the 1st week in May. Basic Brewing Radio had a good podcast on this...

I do have Columbia from them. I screwed up when I looked over my order(wanted Columbus). I do not know a lot about it yet but If i find something out Ill let you know

I think it will work out well. I think here in MI we are done with snow but it has been cold at night so I have a good mound of dirt on each hop. Here is my 2nd set up. Im going to try and run them down my fence line. They will get sun all day long so this should help with the morning dew on the...

Last bottle I have. This is over 8 months old now. Still a good good beer. It has changed a lot as I said in my last post. Its on the stout side now with a hop kick. I did do an 8th month old review on this check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy9lzmDhFYc I will be making this in...

This is my 1st year going hops. I'm starting with Cascade, Chinook, Columbia and Centennial. All purchased from greatlakeshops. I'm going to put 2 of them in boxes. Then Im going to run 2 of them down my fence. I'll post a pic of that once I get that done. Edit I found out I had Columbia and not...

I just finished up the 2nd tasting of this and we are getting a lot of cinnamon taste. As i posted here with the 1st tasting it was hot, we didn't get any cinnamon. Have any of you guys had cinnamon from this? As in the video we did taste the others to make sure we had the right one and we did...

Here is what I use. final batch size + absorption + trub loss + boil off = water needed absorption is grain weight x .075 (or x .05 depending on how hard you squeeze the bag) Not sure if you did this or not but you should boil say 4 gal of water for a hour and see what your boil off is...

I did Chocolate Vanilla Oatmeal Porter and it was good its now gone. I will have to make this again soon. Let me know how the peanut butter turns out. What are you going to use for the peanut butter? PB2?

Happy New Year everyone. Drinking this recipe tonight

Make sure you guys drink this once its ready(very good). I have 2 bottles left from brewing this in March and they now taste like a stout/porter. I had about 10 people try this about 2 weeks ago and it was split. 5 said it was a porter 5 people said it was a stout with hops. I was thinking I had...