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It was raining after work today, but I jogged up to the field to see how the plants were doing- all 66 are throwing up shoots. Going into season three, I'm on the look out for oddities and I stumbled across this isolated instance on a chinook. One shoot stunted shoot with short nodes and a...

If you're like me you hate dangling hoses and things that fall over- damaging equipment. Not too long ago I started using an oxygen cylinder to add O2 to my wort prior to fermentation- two things became clear in short order: 1) I needed to meter oxygen flow so that $10 cylinders arent used up...

Hello everybody, My name is Tim, and I have an addiction. In 2011 I planted my first hops. Since then this forum has been a major source of information and inspiration, so I would like to say "Thank you" to GVH_Dan, PleasantValleyHops, HALIFAXHOPS, and everyone else that participates and...

I know that I have seen the use of white clover suggested several times as a cover crop to choke out weeds in the hopyard. My plot is is easily accessible to deer, very near a highway and adjacent to a veggie plot. I'm not certain that I want to be planting deer bait. I was wondering if there...

Need a liquid dip tube for an otherwise complete corny keg. Willing to trade or purchase, shoot me your offers. Thanks!

Thought I would share my recipe for hop-pickled eggs. You can fudge the numbers a little and/or substitute ingredients, but the general recipe is: 36 hardboiled eggs 2 half gallon mason jars 5 cups of water 2 cups of malt vinegar 2 cups of apple cider vinegar 1 cup white vinegar...

As I'm scrubbing up some buckets to dump the latest 11 gallons of wort into, a silly thought entered my mind while cleaning the lids... "In all the years of reading silly **** on HomeBrewTalk, I have never seen anyone ask about 'food grade' lid grommets, why is that?" Is it because people...

Has anyone decorated anything with hop bines before? My wedding is in 4 weeks and I have 37 bines that I intend to sacrifice for decoration. My intention is to harvest the entire bine the morning-of. I am figuring that some 12+ hours later, that the foliage may become limp and lackluster if left...

Let me start by saying that I -HATE- when threads are titled "How to" but then proceed to ask a question rather than demonstrating anything... Now that I have that off my chest, I put together this quick demonstration last weekend for my homebrew club, the Green Bay Rackers...

The bombers were waxed with cheese wax. The labels were just some fancy Hobby Lobby paper fatigued on the edges by folding and tearing them apart, then adhered with spray-on Elmer's glue I intended to make my own crate out of some scrap wood I had, but I stumbled on this while I was at Hobby...

Forget lazy robins and know-nothing ground hogs! My Cascades (and a few of the more ambitious Goldings) say that spring is here! I can't wait for the ground to thaw so that I can get these 18 hop-toddlers planted somewhere more permanent!

The Titletown Open Home Brew contest is an annual event put on by the Green Bay Rackers Home Brew club. It is a BJCP certified event and will be held on April 26th and 27th at Titletown Brewing Company in Green Bay, WI. Entries need to be received by April 22nd, 2013. This years event will...

Saturday Mar. 9, 2013 (6:00 pm - 10:00 pm) At Stadium View Bar and Grille in Green Bay (1963 Holmgren Way, Green Bay, WI 54304) Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Happily Ever After Animal Sanctuary (A No-Kill Shelter) is putting on their third annual Beer and Biscuits event. "Beer &...

At the KI center in Green Bay from 6-10 pm. Tickets $40, $70 for VIP and $10 for DD. Details here: http://brewfestgb.com/ The Green Bay Rackers will be on hand, serving 4 cornies of homebrew.

Twice a year, the public library puts on a book sale. Boy Scout troop 1201 (my old troop from many many years ago) assist them in moving a literal mountain of books. I occasional lend a hand to my old troop, and while I was doing just that today I stumbled upon a very old looking book. I was...

Stein Garden and Gifts is running their end of summer clearance event. A friend of mine told me that they had hops. I was like, yeah right. But I happened to be in the area and decided to poke my nose in. I scored these: Labeled as "Brewer's Hops" the backs of the tags go on to explain that...

Hey guys, After more than a year of planning, and nearly six months of collecting parts, testing and building, the Death Star is operational! This post is not meant to be an educational how-to, but rather just my two minutes to be proud and show off. Once I polish this rig up, I will probably...

As I'm putting together an eBrutus2.0, I find myself weighing my hop-sludge reduction options. On my current setup I sometimes use a hop spider, sometimes I don't. In the past, I have used those 2" tea balls to hold 1/2 oz of hops each. This got me to thinking about some sorta stainless mesh...

Get 'faced and save a kitten! http://www.happilyeverafterinfo.org/events-sign_up/?i=d2d32beef17c "Beer and Biscuits Mar. 10, 2012 (6:00 pm - 10:00 pm) Location: Stadium View 1963 Holmgren Way Green Bay, WI 54304 Beer & Biscuits is BACK! Those of you who attended Beer & Biscuits (our beer...

I can't be the only idiot who gets so excited about brewday that he stops off at the local micro on his way home from the LHBS and downs two tripels before inviting friends over to his house and getting black out drunk the night before, right? Ugh. I LOVE brewday, but I'm having a real...