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Last year, first year with my new hop yard. It's an old stockyard, perhaps the richest soil you can imagine. I actually got a good yield the first year, which is unusual. This, the second year, they went nuts. But--here we are nearing harvest, and some of the hop cones are turning brown...

There are times in the business cycle where it makes more sense to open a discretionary income business like a brewery. At the tail end of a recession, for instance, when property values are lower and rents decline, used equipment may be readily available at low prices, other brewing inputs...

I have an RO system bought from Buckeye Hydro in February of 2016. I still haven't changed the filter. I have a TDS meter and the system still produces what it always has, i.e., 4-5ppm. Before I start producing that water I flush the system; after using it I flush it again, at least 30...

OK, gang, it's posted in General Chit Chat. We had some visitors here this weekend so I couldn't get to it before now.

PART TWO: Of course, regardless of what they had on tap—they did have an excellent 16-tap system—if they didn’t have a beer for everyone, it would be a problem. And they didn’t. At the end, only 9 taps had beer, the other 7 never had a beer flow through them. Despite having a 1-barrel test...

PART ONE HomeBrewTalk readers: This was written to a relative who was considering opening a brewery; my hope was they would not repeat the same mistakes. This "Requiem for a Brewery" is my take on why they failed. YMMV as they say. Comments are welcome. You may disagree with me—you’ll be...

What I wrote really isn't a fantasy--it's an after-action report of the mistakes a brewery made. They're really quite profound in many ways. I'm sorry you see it as click bait. Maybe it's not appropriate for HBT. I know most brewers dream of being able to do it for money and for real; I had...

I don't want to post this item if it's not appropriate... ...I managed to scratch an itch of mine--that is, to brew in a commercial brewery, see if people would actually pay money for my beer and, more importantly, come back and buy it again. Sadly, that brewery closed due to a huge number of...

Comments, ideas, critiques, and suggestions welcome! I had a bucket of rhizomes from hops believed to be the descendants of hops grown in the mid-1800s at the Potosi Brewery. Potosi, WI is the home of the National Brewery Museum, worth a visit if you get out this way. They're of particular...

Interesting to me that so many use brewing software. I'll use EZ Water if I'm doing something new, to get the water right, but as for ingredients, timing, and so on, I just write it down. There's a funny thing about this for me. I have background in Statistics and Research that would choke a...

Just to note the other side...if I had a deep garage sink I'd get rid of it and install something like I have now. I've used the deep sinks, and they're not for me. I hate bending over at them just to clean something. Here's a pic of my setup. As you can see, I have a sink sprayer, and...

They are in fact now closed but it had relatively little to do with the quality of the beer (though that figured into it initially). I had the great fortune to brew my Amber (something they hadn't done and for which I have a nice recipe) and get it on tap. The Amber broadened their offerings...

Funny thing about these posts and such: we (at least I!) tend to assume others do similar things that I do. I don't use successive generations but the point is well taken, and in fact in that webinar they talked about oxygenating with subsequent generations since at that point it's not...

The water is coming out of my hot liquor tank (which is the same as my boil kettle :) ) at a specific temp. I will have preboiled the water (part of my standard LODO thing), then cooled it back down with my counterflow chiller. When it's at a stabilized temperature then the underletting...

I can't see why it would matter for more than a degree or so. The grist is still the same temp as if you stir it in, the water is still the same temp as would otherwise be, except coming in through the bottom. I haven't done any specific tests of this. I use a RIMS system and start with...

A little background: I've been away from HBT for a while given my involvement in a local brewery (long story there, ask Q's via PM). Among the discussions we had there, between me and a couple of brewers, was about oxygenating dry yeast...or not. This brewery used dry yeast exclusively; I...

When I wanted to decorate our refrigerator and keezer with stickers, SWMBO put the nix on that. So I decided the only way was to turn the stickers into magnets and stick them on that way. You can turn almost everything into a fridge magnet using this stuff...

We visited Maine Maritime Museum; I am a rural sociologist by trade, and I just LOVE the ambiance of places like that. We had lunch in a small diner sort of thing in a house, ancient walk-in cooler (you could tell by the door and latches), and it was a treat. The food was fine, but the...

Glad to. A lot of my success in brewing is due to this site, and what I've learned here. Gotta give back. I'm attaching my notes page from this recipe, but be forewarned: my process is very different from what almost anyone else uses, but you should be in the ballpark, if not the right...

I think we're talking about different things. I'm not talking about intentionally changing the recipe or process to try something out. I do that, too. I brewed a Little Wolf clone (Zero Gravity Brewing) and a friend and I thought it might be better if it were just a tinge sweeter. So I...