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to give you more height you could go with a more shallow depth for the posts but then bring the cable across the top and down to a ground anchor. Slanting the posts slightly out would help as well. I would go with this even if the base of the posts had to be moved a bit closer. I think on a...

Brewing is the perfect engineers hobby. Lets you design stuff, make stuff, pay attention to detail and enjoy the final result. I see the Lake Jackson location, you must work at either one of the refineries or the nuke plant down there? In that area you will also get to design a fermentation...

How long are you letting it ferment? Mine gets more sour the longer I let it ferment. If I want sour I mix up the biga, using starter, about 25% of the flour and some water and let it sit 36 hrs before adding the rest of the flour and other ingredients.

feel for you. Moved to a new place this year so starting all over on the orchard. Last one was 14 years old so just started to produce well and then said goodbye.

Best of luck. Had a rig like that parked at my place this summer. Well produces all of 1 gpm. good thing it was for irrigation and not the house

used to cut mine back, winter in cool dark place and then put out in spring for a second year

than you have broken a cardinal rule of Joe's. But yes, that should indeed let you push up the alcohol.

Please let us know how that comes out? I suspect it will be very sweet as I have only been able to get the bread yeast up to about 11% (and usually closer to 8%) before they peter out.

I really need one of those. I have a teenage daughter

It is a high hydration dough. I measured correctly but the starter is always a variable as I don't measure when I add replacement water and flour to my starter jar. Thus the starter can have more or less hydration on a given batch. And that can be significant as my biga is 250 gr starter, 180...

to the master bakers out there. I had a new "problem" today and hope someone might have some insight. I have been making my sourdough recipe for years. I use a kitchenaide. When it is just right it will stick to the bottom of the bowl for the first 6 or so minutes of kneading. then in the...

When I have made it I add the yeast a day after adding the Camden tabs. I then open ferment in the bucket for 2 or 3 days (depends on my schedule and time availability) before pulling the bag of mush, putting in a colander and squeezing all I can, and then moving the juice to a carboy and...

that is beautiful. Look at the blue ski, fresh snow, I am sure the air is crisp and clean. And days like that give me a reason to jump on the tractor and clean out my 1/2 mile lane. Something fun about rolling snow.

All started with buying a place on 2.5 acres. that gave me room to plant fruit trees. Was not getting good pollination on said fruit trees so I got a hive of bees. First year with bees I harvested 55 lb of honey. I can't eat 55 lb of honey so decided I needed to try making mead. Bought a...

Come on over, bring your mix. I have been using my backhoe to try and dig out a french drain and keep hitting mud rock. A little of your mix would really help loosen things up and make it go much more quickly

Then I suppose using rolls of toilet paper soaked in gas and plastic bags filled with oxygen and acetylene like I do is also frowned upon?

Since you are not worried about head I would not worry about sunflower oil on the raisins, but I have no idea why they put sunflower oil on raisins. I don't know those brands of yeast but they should work. Yeast wants to eat sugars. All bread yeast is from the same family. I suspect you...

Just file the cause under "it is 2020"

This one has me baffled. I have made one or two batches of this every year for 8 or 9 years. Always acted like it should. This batch will not clear. It is 6 months old. I took a sample and the bread yeast was a monster. Final gravity 1.010, giving an 11% ABV. I even tried cold crashing...

Sorry for the delay in answering. We have been moving so getting to HBT has been lagging. Anyhow, I use 33 points per lb. Might be a little more, might be a little less but it is a good approximation. Then the formula lb = (desired volume X desired SG in points)/33 Example for a 5 gal...