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Been sitting on a handful of Mr. Beer small cans of Hopped Extract. Don't have a small fermenter so...into the pot they all went. 3x small cans of Grand Bohemian Czech Pilsner, 1x Canadian Blonde, along with 250Ml of dark LME. Was rooting around the back of the fridge and found a baggy of...

May have two Water Coolers drop into my lap. A quick look shows that the Refrigeration pack on each of them is a pretty portable unit. No idea whether they provide a useful amount of energy transfer, but I can look into the actual numbers. Anyone hacked a water cooler unit into a ferm...

Started a batch of Mr. Beer Bewitched Amber Ale the day before yesterday. Best before date was October of last year, and the stuff was marked down substantially. Total cost of a 23 liter carboy full, $7.50. @$2.50 a can, in the clearance bin. Figured it worth a try! Read the directions...

Wife picked up a two gallon kit out of the clearance bin and brought it home for me...Archer's Orchard, is the name on the label, tthe fine print shows it to be from Coopers. I was pleasantly surprised to find a pouch of US-04 tucked into the package, along with a pouch of No-Rinse cleanser...

Alright... A friend and I have ground and pressed 300 or so pounds of Mac apples, and about 50 pounds of really nice red crabapples, and we came up with 2 x 23 Liter carboys full, plus a bucket 3/4 full including the residue that had settled into the bottom of the vessel we had filled with...

Been a mixed year for my bines. The Magnum and chinook have grown gangbusters, with a great crop on each of the two pairs of bines. My Fuggles have been, well, mediocre, with a small crop, and my Goldings really seem to have done poorly, with a smaller crop and sparse growth. Not certain if...

Well, I started a batch of cider about a month back, using a smack pacck of Wyeast 108 English Ale yeast that had been in the fridge for about ever. Tasted some from the primary last night. Tastes OK. Smells....not so much... So, today's project is going to be to get it off the lees, of...

Trying out the Cyser from this post here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f30/cyser-q-alcohol-tolerance-coopers-yeast-489847/ and wishing it tasted like it smells.... Amazing smells of apple and honey. Came out dry and almost dusty tasting. Not unpleasant, but so very different from what you get...

Dunno what I got myself into, but decided to try some pineapple juice in with the apple cider I have on the go. I drew off about a half gallon of actively fermenting cider from my carboy, into a gallon jug, and added a liter ~ of pineapple juice that claimed to have no added sugar, etc. As...

Looking at a recipe from Clone Brews, for the Gulden Draak clone. Looking at Ontario Beer Kegs site to order the specialty grains from, as there seems slim pickings anywhere sorta local to me (interior BC) Going to buy whole grains, so the leftovers have a bit of a shelf life, since the...

Just smacked a pack of 1098 British Ale that has been buried in the back of the fridge. Waiting to see if there are any signs of life. Intent is to use it instead of dregs from the last batch, to make a straightforward cider. Straight store-bought apple juice, Frozen concentrate, yeast...

Had a Kilo of honey in the bottom of a bucket, left after I repackaged some honey to give away. Since the apples are starting to drop, and I just rebuilt the antique cider press and test ran it, I had a couple buckets of apple juice on hand...Well, y'all know how this story goes. I added...

Anyone have any experiences to relate as far as deer being a problem WRT eating hops bines? One of the spots on the property I am considering is in a recent logging cut, with an old irrigation ditch running through it. Water is available without too much effort, and I have been considering...

For the folks using drip irrigation, what rate are you using for the emitters? I am getting to the point where I need to start really getting serious about picking a spot and getting some water set up. Lots of drip irrigation stuff available locally, but I am not coming up with much in the...

Was given a couple bottles of "the neighbor's" mead. Was warned at the time that I was essentially being given 3 bottles to empty and re-use. So, a year and a bit later, they were sitting there, and I pulled the cork on one. Have not had a taste like that, without it being from...

It begins again... Dug through the freezer and found a couple bags of frozen bing cherries from last year (better than a bowl of ice cream when watching movies on a warm summer night!) and figgered I should do something with them... So it was off to the store for gallon of apple juice...

Got a couple rhizomes in pots getting started up, a couple each of Fuggle, Golding, Galena, Magnum, and Chinook, IIRC. Looking forward to getting them in the ground this year. Kinda late, but... But my real question is, at this point, I have found some hops bines growing (quite well too!)...