Recent content by Jamminjoenapo

I just kegged a honey amber I've made a few times. I use a lb of honey malt and 2 lbs of honey. The first 5 gallons doesn't have much of a honey flavor, but after a few months the honey flavor really comes out. One of my favorite beers to brew and it usually disappears quickly.

If you want to store them do not get them crushed. Spend the $100 and get a good mill. It will do wonders for your efficiency to once you dial in the new mill. Once you do that Amy air tight container works. I use home depot buckets cause they are cheap and stackable.

Bump anyone?

So my gf is a huge fan of Tommyknocker saison and I've come around to it being that I'm usually not a fan of saisons. I've searched and can't find anything on it, but does someone have a clone recipe for it? I am a newbie when it comes to saisons so I figured I'd ask here first.

All four bines are about ten feet now.

I use an earthtainer. It worked great last year and only needed water every 3 or 4 days in the Georgia sun. Very easy to make and holding water makes it easy if you travel a decent amount. Google earthtainer and there is a website devoted to it by a guy who grows tomatoes.

I trimmed all but four and covered with mulch, we will see how this year goes. If it's anything like last year it will be massive again.

I agree completely I tried my best to not do much and it grew well in the earthtainer. Its only a year old too. Hopefully I'll get a pound of hops this year instead of a few ounces.

Should I bury it in some more dirt? It seems like its a little too close to the surface.

I'll be the first to say I slacked at the end of last year and didn't even cut down my first year hops vines from last year. So now that its warming up I went to check on them and see this. I'm assuming it is the crown and I just need to dig it down and bury it. I at first thought it was a weed...

Just tapped mine with Vienna and galaxy. Very tasty.

I grew cascade last year and they took off. I grew them in an earthtainer which made it easy to not let dry out. Tons of water and not a full day of sun and they will grow. Hell they are weeds and can grow about anywhere.

I always boil mine the last few minutes. And for using a whole pound I only use a half in my session stout (og is around 1.04) for anything larger I'd use a whole pound.

Figured I'd just add to this thread instead of starting my own. They smell kinda like tomato plants with a little hops mixed in but the tomato smell is most prevalent. A few have turned a little more pale green than the others, but this looked the most ripe.

No real set amount. I have about a half pound of pellets in my freezer. Just didn't want a bunch of fresh hops to go to waste.