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I've got a four year old Nugget that has a gigantic crown and four second year plants that I need to move to a new house at the end of June this year. The plants are already doing well, Nugget is some 7 feet high on the twine, and the others are between 1-3 feet up already. How best should...

WET weight of 9.1lbs from the single plant, man that was a lot of work. Pretty stoked for it being just the third year. This is a 3x7 foot patio screen door and the hops are a few inches thick across most of it (bit thicker than I wanted for drying but I'll stir them up) And how it looked...

I picked about 4 ounces ("dry weight") of Nugget hops from my 2nd year plant this past fall, and thought I had dried them sufficiently. I bagged them up in a ziplock freezer bag and for whatever reason left them out on the counter for a week, I think I was worried about critters in them and...

I have a Barley Crusher that I'm tired of using a drill or handcranking. I found a Bodine gear motor at a local surplus place today, does this have the right specs for a Barley Crusher? type: 44c8bvdy-y1 Volts: 115 Hz: 60, ph 1 Amps: 6.1 Output watts: 260 (1/3hp) RPM: 557 Torque...

Short version: How best should I blend 4G of overly sweet carbed and kegged beer with 4G of dry and hoppy uncarbed and kegged beer? I have a Dead Guy clone that I did, something went wrong with it and the yeast stopped at 1.024 (from 1.068 or so). So it's got enough ABV to stand on it's own...

I normally brew with gluten-esque ingredients, heck I love gluten. But I thought I'd try to brew a gluten free beer for kicks and as I know a couple people with celiac that maybe might like to try them. Is there a sort of baseline cleaning I should perform that will for sure let me use my...

Amt Name Type # %/IBU 10 lbs 5.6 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 53.4 % 3 lbs 10.4 oz Pilsner (2 Row) UK (1.0 SRM) Grain 2 18.8 % 1 lbs Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 3 5.2 % 8.0 oz Aromatic Malt (26.0 SRM) Grain 4 2.6 % 8.0 oz Special B Malt (180.0 SRM) Grain 5 2.6 %...

This is a pretty tasty beer, I think it's only released in British Columbia and Alberta right now though: http://www.brewtosaurus.com/news/rickards-expands-seasonal-lineup-with-oakhouse-winter-lager.html Very good feel to it, makes me think about finally using that bag of oak I bought last...

I've not been able to find anything conclusive on this. I'd like to not have to lift my full buckets in or out of my fermentation fridge, so would a Buon Vino mini jet filter work? It's a pump system designed for wine, but of course I'd have just hoses on either end and be careful of...

How would I go about backsweetening hard cider after it's carbed up, in a keg? I've got a batch of pomegranate cherry apple cider in a keg in my fridge, happily carbing up. It tasted pretty nice, but a tad dry, when I racked into the keg a couple weeks ago. But certainly fine for what we...

I've now completed 38 batches of beer, and not a single one have I come anywhere close to needing a blow-off tube. Once I had krausen hit the lid of my bucket, but that's it. Nothing happened, it just touched the lid and funked it up. How is everyone always needing blow off tubes? Why is...

My wife and I are going to spend 10 days in Holland in late May, and then 10 days in Germany right after, and we're super stoked! Now we're just looking at how to fill some dead space in Amsterdam (we have 3 days with few plans after a 7 day bicycle tour), and will then have 2 days in Munich...

Update Oct 6th: IT'S ALIVE! Updated this first post with all the details!! Found a 3 cu ft mini fridge on our local classifieds a while back, $20, thought I'd pick it up and see if I can convert it to a small kegerator. Well it turned out to be too small for 2 kegs, and too short for just...

Buddy of mine wanted to build a kegerator, I have a Danby pre-made I've tinkered with and modded a lot, so we purchased everything he needed from ontariobeerkegs.com and he bought the fridge from Future Shop on special (GE GMR05BLPBSC). It's a 4.5cu ft with a freezer. I was pretty concerned...

I've tried to find threads for this, ultimately left unsatisfied though. Want to build a portable kegging setup, small kegs, small co2 tank, cooler, yadda yadda. Need a small regulator though, don't want to use a normal sized one. Is this crazy...

Found a report done by a company locally on our cities tap water, I've just put in a few of the items the report showed but does this look like anything major needs adjusting for, say a pilsner or a stout? Calcium: 11.8 Magnesium: 2.70 Soduim: 3.06 Chloride: 0.04 Sulfate: ...

Never before have I seen a yeast take off so fast! I brewed an Irish Red ale last night, aerated the wort as I normally would by splashing it into the bucket from the kettle, from a height. I had three 500ml jars with unwashed trub and s-04 yeast from my last batch, a Vanilla Brown ale. I'd...

I want to buy some sacks of base grains and minimize or eliminate the amount of specialty grains I buy. I can get 55lb grain sacks for dirt cheap, so cheap that it makes me think spending a buck per pound on crystal malt is ridiculous. I know I can roast my own specialty grains from base...

My 32oz StarSan bottle contains a 1oz measuring container at the top. How the heck do you use that? Just transfer a random guess amount into another container then transfer that amount into the 1oz measuring container? I keep expecting to find some magic way to just fill that chamber...

I'm doing a cream ale tomorrow and it will have 2lbs of corn meal instead of flaked maize which is impossible to find here. This will require a cereal mash, at maybe 1:1 with crushed 2-row. Does the 2-row I use (say 2lbs) in the cereal mash count towards my total grain bill, like will I get...