If you’ve been following along at home you’ve hopefully seen the progression of my hop garden over the last few months. Today I’m pleased to announce that I have some really nice hop cones starting to form! Check it out: I several weeks ago I expanded the trellis on the Cascade plant and good thing […]
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Hard to believe it’s been 10 weeks and the hops are doing well. Since moving the barrels to the side of the garage that has more sunlight prior to week 6 they seem to be doing better. Just in the last two weeks both the Centennial (on the left) and the Cascade (on the right) […]
So far so good with the hops I planted about 6 (close to 7) weeks ago. I had moved the barrels a few weeks ago to the side of my garage that had a lot more sun. Hops need a lot of sun and less shade! I’ll get at least 6 hours of sun in […]
This year I decided to try my hand a growing hops! I’ve read that it’s easy to do and figured it would be fun to brew beer with my own hops. I was inspired by a past episode of Chop n’ Brew where the guys talked about growing hops in backyards and in whiskey or planting […]
Last weekend I brewed up a brand new brew I’m calling “Almighty Cascade Pale Ale”. It’s a variation of an extract recipie that I made last year. I’ve now converted the recipie to all grain and added more late addition hops…about six ounces of cascade goodness! I’ll post a follow up when it’s ready to […]