My hops are exploding. The Nugget have climbed up to the top of their twine, and are now exploding with hop burrs. SHould get quite a good yield this year from them. Suprisingly enough, the Nugget might be rivaled by the Zeus for yield. I can’t believe how many hops these rhizomes are producing, even [...]

Looks like it might be a decent year - All my hops seem to be doing pretty well, and no major problems so far. I need to put some more fertilizer on them since it has been a few months, but that won’t take very long.
The Liberty, which I was concerned might be a [...]

I feel like I was moving non-stop all weekend. Between activities in the garage, activities in the yard, and everything between I didn’t get much downtime… but I actually prefer that, even though the weekend goes by fast.
One thing I did was rack my 10 gallons of wheat to secondaries. 5 gallons of it was [...]

Yesterday was a brew day - and trying to ensure I stay true to my homebrewing resolutions for 2008, it was a lager - two, actually. I wanted to brew with whole hops, but I lack a false bottom for my 10 gallon polarware kettle. Instead of trying to brew 5 gallons in my 14 [...]

So I finally got my 3 Zeus rhizomes in the ground yesterday. Donna and I put in a new 6′ x 2′ bed on the other side of the fence from my Liberty bed in the back yard. I pickaxed the hell out of the ground underneath the bed (about 8-12 inches worth), and mixed [...]

My rhizomes from Freshops came in today - 3 fatties of Zeus. It is supposed to have a character very similar to Columbus / Tomahawk, and considering the scarcity and outrageous prices of that variety this year - yay me. I am slightly worried because the variety book indicates they are succeptible to mildew, but [...]