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It's a 15' piece of burlap twine steaked into the ground and running up to an 18" hanging planter arm.

I was only able to make 15 foot trellises for my first attempt at hop growing. The magnums didn't survive but the cascades are doing well. The main vine has reached the top of the trellis as of today. Can I train it to grow back downward so I get more. The bottom is a little bushy but after 2...

So it's good to know that you guys have seen this before. I brewed this thing over a month ago and have been looking forward to it. So what I"m describing, it sounds like I'm tasting the "hop dust"? I used gelatin during my dry hopping in the fridge @ 45 degree F. So I should give this a few...

I guess I should add, that the flavor profile of the "ruined" beer, is very grassy, very earthy, and flat out not delicious. And after checking my notes, it was 2 oz of Cascade pellets.

So I think my dry hop ruined my beer. I made an IPA and dry hopped w/ 1.5oz of cascade pellets. The brew tasted good pre-dry hop, I racked it off the dry hops (were in a paint strainer bag w/ marbles), into the keg, and force carbed it. It only dry hopped for 6 days. It looks like I may have...

I thought about adding something, not sure I wanna engrave them...a buddy of mine is a welder, and I may have him pound out some letters, and make them rough looking and attatch a spike to it to mount them.

Thanks for the input guys. I'll just dry hop right before I leave. Why not dry hop when I get back? Cause I'm gonna need something to drink when I get back.

Thanks guys! They're a little beefy, but I like them. Hoppenflan....flan is part of a nickname i have for SWMBO and she wanted to name the ipa....so I listened ;)

Brewing an ipa today. I plan on letting it sit in primary for 10'ish days, and then dry hopping. Problem is...the wife and I are going to Germany for 2 weeks on the 21st, and I doubt the first thing I do when I get home is keg the beer. So we are looking at potentially 3 weeks of dry hopping. I...

Drank me a lot of Belikin on my honeymoon in Placencia! The dark was delish!

Since this is one of the few things that my wife doesn't share my love of, in fact she thinks I'm kind of an idiot when it comes to these hobby obsessions of mine, I thought i'd share my new tap handles w/ some fellow beer geeks. I took some nice 1.5" square pieces of pine from my big box...

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Today I brewed my 2nd all grain, it was a golden ale. Things don't make sense...here's the grain bill (5.5 gallon batch in brew pal app): 8lb 2 row .75lb carapils .5lb crystal 10L .5lb Vienna @ 75% efficiency i should get 1.040, but i got 54.8% w/ my 1.030 pre boil gravity reading. It...

I used a American ale yeast wyeast smack pack

Thanks for easing my mind! I'm pretty excited about being back. I was all extract and bottling in the past, and I told myself if/when I got back to it, i'd only do all grain and keg. Kegerator is ready for it's first batch!

I haven't brewed in a few years, and I'm just getting back to it. Does the head on this fermentation vessel look normal? I ask b/c it doesn't look right to me years later, and we had a few issues in brewing that could've caused some contamination of bacteria. I'm 6 days into primary...