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My hops are going crazy already and its not even peak growing season yet. At this rate they'll reach the top of my 22 1/2 foot trellis before July. What am I gonna do? Anybody else have super insane hops?

I have a second year Centennial that is about 10' tall right now and it already has burrs. I'm guessing I'll have cones in a month. If I harvest then, will i get a second crop of cones in August/ September like normal? I am expecting my hops aren't done growing and they'll reach the top of my...

Hi all! So last year I planted 4 rhizomes- Cascade, Centennial, Sterling and Mt. Hood. The Sterling and Mt. Hood got to much water and never did anything, in fact I took them out of the ground because they were so soggy. I got about 2 ounces of Cascade hops and no Centennial. For...

On my first partial batch i made an IPA using 2 oz of chinook hops for the bittering. When it came time to try the beer i found it to be lacking in bitterness. I put my recipe in my brewing software and it said it shouldve had like 108 ibu's but it was more like 55 ibu's. Why could this have...

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Hello, I have a 2nd year cascade rhizome and a 2nd year centennial rhizome that did very well the first year. But recently heavy rains caused the ditch that i planted them in to overflow and flood. How do i know if my rhizomes are ok and im also thinking about transplanting them into pots. Can...

Hey this will be the first "partial"mash recipe i will do. I just harvested about two ounces of Cascades from my first year cascade plant. ive been craving a really good IPA so this is what i came up with. 4 lbs. Ultralight LME 5 lbs. Domestic 2-Row 1.5 lbs. Crystal Malt 40L .5 lb. Cara-Pils .5...

im assuming its ok to add frozen hops to the secondary for dry-hopping and also in the boil. or do i have to thaw them?

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Ok so I did a 1 gallon test batch of a Cherry Brown ale and i used brown sugar and cocoa in the recipe. Right now its sitting on top of the cherries in the secondary. Its pretty strong already considering the cocoa i used was more like sugar with some cocoa in it and the brown sugar so i took a...

im making a one gallon test batch and i have a packet of dry ale yeast do i put the whole thing in or just a 5th of it. help:confused:

Im planning on doing a 1 gallon test batch tomorrow of a cherry brown using fresh local grown cherries and possibly some cocoa. I was wondering if anybody has ever tried using cocoa and what brands to buy. i have a little bit of ghiradelli cocoa. is that ok to use. Take a look at the recipe for...

I have acquired a 1.5 gallon glass jug and i want to make some test batches in it but i dont know how. its probably easy math but if anyone has some basic/cool methods on making test batches can you let me know? Im really looking forward to experimenting with fruit mostly i have bunch of...

Ive got a wheat cream ale going and it started fermenting 18 hours after pitching with a vigorous krausen that blew the lid on my bucket. After a day the krausen settled down and airlock almost stopped bubbling but then continued. After 7 days in the primary i transferred to secondary and...

Hey there, T-bag here. So ive got a plan for a hop dryer but was wondering if there was a better way. at harvest time it'll still be pretty damn hot out round 80-90 degrees so i was just going to make frames out of thin wod and staple some screen to it and stack about 8 frames on top of...

I picked up my legal pad and sat down and worked this out with out looking at another recipe first. This is straight out of my head. I was craving a Caramello. 4# Light LME(60minBOIL) 2# Munich malt 1# Crystal 10L 8oz Chocolate malt--{ Mash all grains for 45min at 155 } 8oz...

So i pitched my yeast and put the lid on. And then twelve hours later i noticed the lid wasnt on all the way, one part wa snt snapped down. Is this ok? what could happen. Also its been a little over 24 hours and theres some yellow foamy stuff in my airlock(which is filled with vodka) im...

OK so i was just planning out some recipes using the different types of hops im growing and WAIT A MINUTE! How do I know how many AAU's are in my hops? Im growing cascade, centennial, mt.hood and sterling Halp!???????!:confused::rockin:

Hey I put this pyramid trellis together and my hops in last week. The cascade and Centennial are growing just barely out of the ground but my Mt.Hood and Sterling arent doing so good. my only concern about the trellis design is that when the bines get to the top they might want to keep going and...