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Hebby, I always get plenty of praise on my Double Chocolate Stout and I'll be making it for the 3rd year soon. My suggestions for your recipe: use 8oz of cocoa powder at 10 min left in the boil along with 12oz lactose powder, cut out your flaked oats (theres enough mouthfeel in the lactose)...

Theres no brew day I love more than pumpkin ale day. Pumpkin in the mash and spices in the boil overwhelm the neighborhood with a prelude of the cool fall nights and pumkinny-orange beer to come! Just sayin.

Add a few oz of oak chips to the secondary and scale back the bourbon to 5oz. A lot of the bourbon flavor is oak anyhow so they compliment each other perfectly

I guess I lucked out. Well I definitely did. I was accidentally mailed my rhizome order twice so I ended up with 16 first year hops this season. 6 cascades, 2 Columbus, 2 fuggle, 2 galena, 2 mt hood, and 2 norther brewer. They grew and are producing hops in that order (best to worst). The...

Oh I thought that only worked for aphids. Thanks!

Ones Organocide or other HD products do the trick? Lady bugs half ass kill them right?

Does anyone know if this Organocide works for spider mites? I have several eating my babies. If this product doesn't work, anyone know what does??

Juan, or anyone, I'd be interested in hearing tips for quicker/easier removal of the keg's spiral ring. Ive done it about 5 times and I'm still struggling. I use a narrow flathead screwdriver to pry it out enough to grab it with needle nose pliers and use a small hammer to tap it back into place...

Aphids or something close??

Yeah badbrew I squished all those buggers with my fingers and haven't seen many more. Aphids of some sort right?

Your sprouts will take 2-3 weeks to surface and will look like my pic. Those are not hops.

Same columbus at week 2, 3, & 4

Copper shielding has worked well for me... If you can get some. I built a few MRI rooms and had some of the sheet copper left over... Not sure where to get it otherwise but they make copper rings for this purpose too

Well it sounds unreal, but after only a week and a half the rhizome in question just surfaced a head! It's hard to believe that the 6" root clipping was left in the open warm air for 2 weeks and chewed on by our pup yet still survived. It was so dried out that it had almost no weight to it and...

Its hard to tell from this picture, but this Columbus plant has 9 heads / side shoots. As a result, no shoot has took the lead to begin its journey up the twine. Should I trim this guy or is it still too small? It broke ground 5 weeks ago and it's brothers are ~2' tall now.

Yeah I know that risk and I'm horrified by it. When I planted the hops it started pouring rain and I couldn't put up the chicken wire until 2 days later in which time this digging occurred. Fence now surrounds the hills. Thank you for the concern.

Here's the short story: My roommates puppy got past my temporary barricades and dug up 2 hills with 2 freshly planted rhizomes. I found 2 of 4 in the yard the next day. They're fine and are growing fine. Now, here I am 2 weeks later drinking homebrews with friends in the backyard and my gf says...

Here's my mash / girlfriend paddle. Haha she just rolled her eyes

Thanks for all the input. I'll let the soil dry out a little more and stop looking for shoots until another week or two. Can anyone comment on the soil moisture test?

Thanks Steve I'll have to get around to that. Go Irish. Does anyone remember how long it took for their first year hops to break ground??