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I'm totally down with hops for eggs. Agree with dead cats. At the Mammoth Blues and Brews Fest so many beers had cascade hops I felt like I was eating grass and I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth.

I honestly really dislike cascade in beer, so we'll probably sell those and use the others and then sell whatever is left of those too.

I read that a dog could die from eating hops, is yours okay? Be careful! 99% sure it's cascade. It has the grassy rough smell of Cascade. I'm okay with the low yield, no biggie. I'm thinking Cascade, Warrior (maybe), Goldings, Perle. I used perle in my chocolate stout, it was amazing. I've...

Damn, that's a lot. Probably only need one rhizome of each type of hops then. No way we'd make that much beer even in a year unless we opened a brewery. Which is not off the table... Which varieties do you have? If I were to,,say,,,,share them, what do you think would be good? I'm thinking...

Hey Hop Ranger. So, I've got a question for you, should be easy. Our hops farm is about to get bigger. We need to take apart the entire telles system and everything the previous owner set up because it simply sucks. Should we replace it with a Pyramid trelles (one spike, with bines...

Damn, you are beer making machine! This month we're making 3 beers, possibly four. We'll be making an Irish Red Ale tomorrow (Just Brew It's recipe), a Scottish Light Ale, a Honey Wheat Ale (strongly considering doing a decoction on that one after reading up on it to help along the wheat...

Hey Nevada folkals. Any of you used Honey in your brews? What about as a carbonation primer? Any tips or tricks on how to make a "heavy" honey note without being over the top? Also, HopRanger, I had my first Marzen yesterday. It was AWESOME. I can't wait to make our own now.

Oh yah, I forgot to ask, what kind of cherries did you use in the Marzen? Did you add any cherry extract?

Yah. I'll try that. Good question actually. I think we were more just morbidly curious to see what happens. I think we'll just put the Jameson into our glass first to see if it's even a good idea. Mostly just trying to mix Irish with more Irish. :)

I suppose to get the extra feet, I could....either get large trelleses but that seems complex if I'm leaving the rhizomes....or maybe trolley lines between the barn/garage and the outhouse (which the bines have managed to grow onto anyway). Not sure. Maybe transplanting is unavoidable. What...

Hmm, maybe I'll train it to go up the side North and South side of the outhouse but leave the rhizomes in the same place? Some diagrams I've seen show diagonal bines. But the outhouse isn't really tall enough anyway, it's only like 10ft. tall. People suggest 25ft. Ponder ponder ponder...

Heh. Well, it's in pretty bad state of disrepair, it's been wild for at least a year. So I might have some more questions but I've been doing a lot of reading and there's just enough hops on the big overgrown bines for 1 beer. So we'll probably harvest it soon then prep it for winter...

That's kinda funny but sorry to hear it. Anyway, so we kind of inherited a hop garden. Do you know of any way to tell what kind of hops they are other than smelling them?

Hey TheHopRanger, we just found some "wild" hops in a friend's ranch that she's going to let us harvest and tend to. Do you have any experience growing hops?

You could probably take "street" out and it would be more clever. We know Jesus drank alcohol so it shouldn't be offensive.

Ah, duly noted. Thanks again. I'll keep working on proper technique.

Update: My temperature adjustments were wrong, the gravity is actually 1.081 because it was at 90* The table I got for adjustments was unreliable. So I'm not too far off. And with the explanations y'all gave between unmixed water and too much hop content in the hydrometer, I think I'm okay...

Great idea. I'll have to take a bunch of readings during a weekend like every hour of the day to see how it fluctuates.

What do those do? A regular light bulb or a heat lamp? Do tell of this technique