Well my stand got here 3 weeks ago now, it is awesome! Unfortunately, I have not used it yet. I can’t believe that something this cool, that I waited so long for with back order parts is not being put to hard use! I did get the pumps mounted along with the chill plate, but [...]
Not that I’m complaining, but my hops have already reached the top of my trellis. My trellis is only 12 feet high and I knew it would grow over, but I was planning more for June to have this problem, not May 1st. What to do now? My trellis is simply a steel wire run between [...]
A keggle is not really as complicated as you may think. All it requires is a bit of planning, a couple tools and some parts. Of course you’ll also need a keg. How you procure a keg I’m not going to get into, we will just assume you acquired nice and legal like. Here is a [...]
So you have decided to make the commitment to growing your own hops. You bought the rhizomes, you put them in the ground, and now they are starting to grow like Audrey in the Little Shop of Horrors. What to do now, it is actually pretty simple. The first thing is to build a trellis, [...]
FInally! A new homebrew store in North Jersey and it is in reasonable distance from my house. Now I know many of you are not in NJ and don’t care, but for those of you who are in NJ you really should go check out Joe Verzi’s new Homebrew Store, Cask and Kettle. You can [...]