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Lets see what everybody else does. It's my first year with homegrown hops. (Cascade, Williamette and Goldings) After harvest I immediately put them in a food dehydrator and set it on its lowest setting (95 Deg) so as not to damage any of the oils. I have found that approx. 30 hours brings them...

Thanks, I'm gonna post a new thread related to this. It's about how I prepared my homegrown hops. If you guys grow your own how do you save them for later use? I simply dehydrate them at 95 deg. for about 30 hours with a food dehydrator. Seems to work really well. I then simply vacuum seal...

yes, its a 15.5 keg. I was thinking that the braided tube wouldn't receive enough heat since it has between 1"-2" of clearance from the bottom. Do you think that amount of liquid would not disperse enough heat? Are you concerned with the small mesh actually melting?

Whats better? I have a nice stainless bazooka tube that can easily be screwed into a 1" coupler that I TIG welded near the bottom. My feeling is however that I will be missing approx. the bottom 1.5 gallons of wort since the tube is perfectly horizontally extended from the coupler instead of...

I just finished harvesting about 15 oz. of homegrown Cascade hops. I also have about 2 oz. of Goldings and 1 oz. Williamette. This is my first year growing my own hops and would like to make a nice 10 gallon all grain batch using my own hops. I would like to make a very hoppy ale (IPA etc.) to...

Been brewing for a few years and just started growing hops. I have Cascade, Williamette and Goldings. This is my first harvest and I'm trying to do everything right. From everything I read it looks like they needed to be harvested. The Cascades grew incredibly fast and have developed a bumper...