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[mr_goodwrench]

 

[Germey]

 

[mr_goodwrench]

 

[hughes_brews]

Compact Keezer

 

[brauhausjoe]

 

[TCHDNSD]

Our clubs hop farm tour.

This is getting loaded into the dryer room.

 

[TCHDNSD]

The dryer room is about 30 feet across, over 100 feet long, and 34 inches deep. And they fill it completely.

 

[TCHDNSD]

Once the hops are dried, they get dumped down 1 story and sit for a couple of days to equalize the moisture content.

Sorry for the crappy pic.
That pile is 6 feet high, 10 feet wide and 30 feet long. And there's another one at the other end.

 

[TCHDNSD]

Another view of the dryer.

 

[TCHDNSD]

That's a 200# bale of Cascades that the owner was letting us dig out of.
This was at Mike Gooding Farms, in Wilder, Idaho. Mike is very gracious and accommodating to us home brewers. His farm produces about 1,000,000 pounds of hops per season. (6 weeks)

 

[TCHDNSD]

Mike's showing us what downey mildew looks like.
He said if I told I have that on my plants, he'd come over and put "round-up" on them immediately.

 

[TCHDNSD]

Here is bag of Chinooks that were ours for the taking. I went home with about 8 oz. AA% 12%

 

[TCHDNSD]

This is me sorting my Chinooks from my patio.

 

[TCHDNSD]

Done. I think I got about 8 or so ounces dry from a first year plant.
I'm satisfied.

 

[TCHDNSD]

Homegrown hops and homebrew

 

[TCHDNSD]

Our brew club adopted a highway

Those are hop fields on the lower(upper?) left corner. We are one mile from where we took our tour.

 

[brauhausjoe]

 

[delarob]

 

[user 7154]

My 9 year old, 90 pound puppy, Rommel

 

[brauhausjoe]

 

[Boodlemania]

Very good friend of mine, helping finish my house last summer.

 

[brauhausjoe]

 

[user 7154]

 

[brauhausjoe]

 

[Germey]

Pier 39 residents.

 

[tkktommyboy]

 

[Germey]

New way to tour SF

 

[tkktommyboy]

 

[Boodlemania]

 

[clemson55]

Is this ever going to end?