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Hello. All 18 of my hop plants are between 1" and 8" as of March 24, 2017. Should they all be cut back? If so, when? If not, do I simply wait for the 6 most aggressive vines to take shape and cut the rest back? Please help. Thank you.

I am designing a sink area and want to incorporate a surface mounted glass rinser into the stainless steel sink surface. I want this to rinse glass carboys as well as corny kegs. Can someone suggest a product that can be surface mounted and has good pressure/spray for carboys and the corny kegs?

I recently purchased an O2 regulator and would like to know a good rule of thumb for liters/minute for 5 gallons of beer. After reading all the threads and calculation on the subject, I'm really confused. The best I can tell is that .5 or 1.0 liters/minute for 60 seconds is sufficient. Can...

Should I be freezing hop pellets for storage?

I use wire tomato cages to grow my hops. Will the rust from the metal have any affect on the plants?

Is there a method, other than looking at pictures, of identifying what type of hops I have growing? I was given a rhizome with no real identification. We think it is cascade but are not certain.

I'm resigned to the fact that my first lager finished with a diacetyl flavor due to the lack of a rest during fermentation. Is there any chance it can be heated to a certain temp and be boiled off?

I start to heat my wort after the first batch sparge to increase my time efficiency. By the time I have my full batch for boiling, the temperature is up around 190 degrees. How do I get an accurate pre-boil gravity reading at that temperature?

I have a horizontal 3 keg brewing system and I use the batch sparge method. I have been using my pump to introduce the sparge water into the mash kettle through the bottom pick up tube vs. dumping it in the top. Are there any negative's to this method?

My hops are close to being ready for harvesting. I was going to pick them this weekend however we are set to get our first batch of rain in about 2 months. Should I wait until after the rain? Is it ok to pick them wet? Any advice is appreciated!

I am getting ready to add raspberries and blueberries separately to my Hef in the secondary. I understand that I should heat them both to 160 for sanitation and then cool. My question is to add the berries whole, crushed, or juiced.

I want to increase the depth of my raised hop beds that are currently built with 2x8's. The plants are several years old and have a good root structure but I believe they need more good soil due to the clay base below. I would like to add another section of 2x8's to the raised beds and add an...

Am I losing yeast during blow off? There is a 1/4" layer in the bottom of my blow off bucket. My carboys are full but only to the start of the bottom of the neck.

I am building a brew stand and am using 11" propane banjo burners. I have one hooked and ran a test boil last night with 12 gallons of water. It took an hour to get to a boil. the burner is about 4.5" below the bottom of the boil kettle. Is this too far away? should I shorten the distance...

How far below the brew kettle should the burner be placed?