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Another vote for Great Lakes Hops. I have bought from them several times and cannot say enough about the health of their plants (no rhizomes). Plus they not only have a huge, huge selection but some awesome new offerings from their Heritage line

Just put together my first batch last week. The primary smells great! I modified to Galaxy and Citra instead of Amarillo/centennial. Excited to dry hop then get into a bottle!

It does indeed have good specific information for east coast/midwest/NE growers. I've really enjoyed it and it's been super helpful for me. (Keep in mind it will also have a good bit of advanced or small scale commercial production info the may be less helpful to him right now)

I would second Nugget and Cascade, both grow well and easily with good production and very versatile in brewing. Re: books. I think they can be helpful. Fantastic in depth book hot off the presses: The Hop Grower's Handbook...

So I've got a fun little experiment going in my basement. I've had a sourdough starter that I cultured from the air and have had going for ~ 6 yrs and then subcultured for a week or so in sterile wort and got a good starter going. I made up a simple Saison and divided into 2 1 Gal. carboys. 1...

Just started my first hop plants this year (Cascade, Nugget and Willamette). I snipped back the 2-3 extra shoots that came off later and just allowed the one main shoot to grow as I didn't have a ton of extra space. But after reading several other threads I'm wondering if this will hurt the...

Only used the Northeastern Abbey myself, but it produced a very nice Belgian Pale that I made for my brother's wedding rehearsal dinner.

I've been cultivating a sourdough starter for about 5ish years now and I too have been considering throwing some into some wort one of these days to see what happens. I wasn't able to watch the videos, but have been wondering regarding pitching: Have any of you who have tried this made a...

Excellent thanks guys. We're actually moving in a few weeks Calder so that's why I decided to put it off til next year. Starting back in the winter I brewed my last few brews and at this point have everything bottled. I didn't feel like putting any carboys onto the U-haul for a summertime 8...

Thanks for the input guys. That's really helpful, especially the Colonna Corker dcHokie. I was more thinking Troeg's La Grave bottles (I live in Hershey, PA so Troeg's are pretty easy to come by. It's only a 5 minute drive to the brewery)

So I'm looking at embarking on my own sour brewing experience this upcoming spring (not this spring). As I'm getting prepped I was wondering what I should begin hoarding for bottling in. I read in Wild Brews most Belgian sour brewers condition in champagne bottles. That said would the...

Thanks for help guys. I kinda figured since it was starting to carbonate I should just sit tight and wait. Sadly 70 F is a bit out of reach for our house right now. Maybe in a month when this part of PA warms up a bit.

First time post!! So I just bottled up my first lagered beer ever, an oktoberfest. I primed with my normal amount of sugar and after 2 weeks, the 2 bottles I've opened have a little bit of carbonation, but not much. They were totally flat in just a few minutes. (However even for being...