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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'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...

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...

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...

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...

I have some old extract that I'm looking to brew, and I'm thinking to use it in stouts and/or porters. Any comments/suggestions/constructive feedback would be appreciated. I have: 12 lbs of Williams German Gold LME About 6 lbs Weyermann's Munich Malt Extract A couple cans of Munton's...

I did some searching and the general consensus seems to be that LME becomes unusable after about six months or so. I'm interested because I took a hiatus from brewing for about ten months, and I have a fair amount of money tied up in some old ingredients (specialty malts, LME, and hops)...

Normally I put one tube of WL yeast into a one-quart starter, made with one cup of DME. I was thinking, could I double the size of the starter (two quarts, two cups of DME), pitch one tube of the WL yeast, and double the amount of yeast, perhaps by giving it a bit of extra time (instead of...