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A follow-up to the post above: Eventually what happened with those new rhizomes was as follows. The ones planted in the ground started slower, but eventually outgrew the ones planted in Homer buckets by a huge margin. I've already taken some cones off the ones planted in the ground, whereas...

I've heard that from others, that cones from the first year or two can have vegetal/grassy flavors which disappear as the plant becomes more established. But it seems to be the homebrewers who maintain this, whereas I've read that hop farmers dismiss this claim. I understand that a...

Got a teamaker rhizome from Freshops, and I planted it in some Ocean Forest back in March. It started slow, but made up for it, as I'm already harvesting pretty dried cones from it. I tried making some tea, using a regular old tea infuser with hot water. It's not particularly tasty, though...

I have a batch of compost in the tumbler for several months. I've continued to feed it, so I have not removed it just yet. Today I made some compost tea, nothing fancy, just fresh compost steeped in water. I put it on two established hop plants that struggled last year. We'll see if it makes any...

Any of you have success with compost tea (either the "natural" kind, with compost soaked/steeped in water, or the more manufactured kind, where aeration, molasses, etc., is involved)? I've heard tell from folks with experience growing a similar plant that the compost tea is very good. I've got a...

Sort of a peripheral issue, but I planted some of my new rhizomes in Homer buckets and some in the ground. The soil in the homer buckets has supported a few years' worth of tomatoes and such as that, but it is mainly a combination of well-aged Miracle-Gro potting soil, some of my dad's compost...

I'm in Southern CA. It used to be orange groves where I live; about 60 years ago they got rid of the oranges and built what is now my neighborhood. The soil has a lot of clay in it. A few years ago I transplanted some rhizomes. I had some growing in orange plastic Homer buckets from HD with...

Some of the pics go back to 2010 when the rhizomes were purchased, but all of the hops are above ground now, probably because we had a warm winter here (SoCal). No pics from this year. Thanks in advance for any help.

Come on, 100+ views and no one can post a picture of mature Zeus/Magnum/Goldings leaves?

The forgetful dumb@ss would be me. I haven't brewed for about four years now, but I planted some hops in 5-gallon buckets back in the day. After a couple of years, the labels which came with the rhizomes were sun-faded and impossible to read, and the identities of the plants I had long since...

I have a Cascade plant, second year of growth. Shoots are coming up, as you can see in the picture below. I've read that only 4-6 of the bines should be allowed to grow to maturity, but I'm probably not going to be brewing this year, so I wonder if there is any harm in letting it go. Last year...

Put out a pie tin full of beer and the slugs will crawl in and drown.

I use the Mr. Beer fermenters, and I have an electric stove which is pretty slow to heat large quantities of liquid, so I have worked out a particular approach for making beer with my small plastic fermenters and my low-BTU cooktop. I like the Mr. Beer fermenters... they work well, and permit...

I appreciate the advice. I think I'm going to try the bottomless buckets. For one thing, they're in stock now and they only cost $2.50 each. They're tall enough to leave a few inches above the ground to protect the hops from the string trimmer that the gardener will use on the grass (after the...

I have a bunch of rhizomes that I need to get into the ground. There are eight in all: Cascade, Centennial (x2), Fuggle, Goldings, Magnum, Nugget, and Zeus/CTZ. Here's where I want to plant four or five of them: I'm thinking to put them about a foot or two from the low brick wall. This...

Busy morning for me also, but let me throw in my $0.02. I've only done about 50-some extract batches to date, so I'm not exactly an expert, but what you propose is very close to what I am doing now. If you haven't read this thread, you might find it informative. At this point, when I make...

I would use it. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f37/salvaging-old-lme-154747/

I'm not an expert, but when I looked at these rhizomes, it appeared to me they had shipped me rhizomes that were from the partially above-ground portion of the plants, judging by the look of the bark, etc. So I planted them in such a way as to make the portions that looked to have been...

I ordered on March 08 and received my three rhizomes (Goldings, Magnum, and Zeus) on Thursday March 11 or Friday March 12 (can't recall). I put them into pots as soon as they arrived, and noticed today that my Magnum and Zeus are already sprouting. The above shows the Magnum sprouts, after...

Palmer's book says six months, IIRC. I had some which I bought in 6/2009, and it was noticeably darker than the same LME purchased 1/2010. I'm not sure I agree in re: the grain, however. I have quite a bit of grain that's way past six months, but it seems fine to me. It's stored in sealed...