Recent content by gremlin

I'm in Springfield. Can't remember what varieties I have. I water every day and use fertilizer every two weeks. It's gonna suck bad next month when the japanese beetles move in!

I'm also in Vermont. My hops are about 8 feet tall now! One single plant has about 24 bines. The leaves are dark green. It's about 7 years old, what are yours?

I just brewed a wet hop beer, 5 gallons. Used all 3 pounds of hops I grew this year, right after picking. 60 minute boil, with equal additions every 10 minutes. We'll see how it comes out in a month or so...

will this work if the caterpillars are always on the bottom side of the leaf?

so how do i kill those little damned leaf eating caterpillars? i'm sick off picking them off one by one with tweezers. is there any chemical i can use now to kill them before the actual hops start growing? they are chewing holes in the leaves already. and don't get me started on japanese...

I have about a pound of hops I grew last year, and 4 pounds of dark winter honey. Any ideas to make a beer using up both? Seriously, I have to use this stuff, and I was just going to make a quick, simple beer with a few cans of amber malt extract or a few pounds of light DME. 5 gallon batch...

Just finished vacuum packing this years harvest. One plant only had 2 ounces dried. The other had 27 ounces dried, filled a 6 gallon bucket. Yay! Both plants are 3 years old. Looks like I have to move one into more sun. I also planted 4 new rhizomes this year, so we'll see what time will tell.

It's been pretty rainy here every day lately, with more in the forecast. So how do I tell if my hops are ready to pick? And if I pick them when waterlogged with rain, is there anything special to do when drying?

i'm old at 34 i guess. i sub at the local high school. one day last week, kids were trying to figure out how to use a floppy disk- how do i put it in, these things have no memory, etc. another day they were talking to each other about cassette tapes in regards to a project about the 1990's-...

keep us posted! i really want to meet the rest of you southern vermont guys. barrett

don't live in massachusetts where you are required BY LAW to have health insurance. they say it makes the economy better, since everybody has health insurance. but who can afford $200 a month with high premiums? and if you don't have health insurance, they won't renew your drivers license...

just say buh-bye i quit today. tell the new place that you gave 2 weeks notice. then enjoy a 2 week vacation! back in the day, i quit one place for a better job. when they said i couldn't quit and they needed me, i reminded them about giving me a 5 cents an hour raise a month before, and...

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/simpsons-contest.htm who lives in the real springfield? yeah me. suck it losers. i'll be at the world premier of the simpsons movie with matt groening while you hosers sit at home watching reruns. i may be the only homebrewer in this town, so i can...

damn, i owe almost $40,000 for an mfa in painting (with loans too for aa and ba degrees). what am i gonna do with that degree? i teach one course a semester at the local community college right now. just a foot in the door and experience until i can get a tenured postion making $50,000 a year...

i made a 5 gal batch of cream ale. looked in the fridge, and my wyeast smackpack was a year old! i know, bad planning on my part... i smacked it anyways, it took 4 days to expand. thought that was a good sign, dumped it in, 3days later nothing. drove an hour to the 'local' hbs, got a...