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I grew Victoria and Cascade on the Sunshine Coast this season, in a very lazy fashion and harvested enough for 4 brews. I brought the rhizomes up from the Victorian Coast where I harvested a couple of Kgs in my first year, was crazy the amount of hops I had. Even had my then 6yo Girl picking...

I'm moving up to the Sunshine Coast in the next few weeks from the Victorian Coast and will be taking my Cascade and Por with me. I donated one Cascade to the Forrest Brewery and have kept one rizhome of each strain. Will be interesting to see have they go as I picked enough to brew a dozen...

Today I spent 2 hours digging up my POR and Cascade as we ae on the move. These rihzomes have grown at lest 4 times the size they where last August. Forrest brewery will score some Cascade and the the rest will go to the old man. All I can say is plant them with heaps of poo be careful of the...

Three brews this weekend with my home grown hops. 4kg JW Pale 1kg JW Wheat Malt .500kg JW Vienna .250kg Carapils 100grms POR Flowers @40 200grms Cascade flowers @10 Wyeast 1272 Thats 6 brews from my first year growing hops, and the oldman gets a package in the mail for his brews..

I had a sample of my harvest brew tonight, pale, vienna and carapils with 100grms POR early and 200grms Cascade late, Deelux, with a hop punch. My first year growing hops, I have harvested dry 900grms cascade from 2 plants and 500grms POR from 1 plant, happy camper/brewer. Golden Ale Homie...

It was the wind that damaged the cones, the heat hasn't been too bad here this "summer". We have had 3 hot days around 40deg, the rest has been humid or cloudy mild, which is not so good when you live at the beach in Vic..

My Cascade had the life beaten out of them over the last 2 days down here on the Vic west coast. The wind broke the support strings and bruised 75% of the cones. I was planing on a harvest today, which gave me 3 buckets of not so good cones. Never mind I'm sure the beer will taste deelux...

Started to harvest Cascade last week with 1kg wet so far. Brewed a pale with wet flowers bittering and a hop tea at day 3.. The POR is a little behind and should be ready in a week so. I hope it pulls its finger out as the house will be up for sale at the end of the month and they they need to...

No brews for me for a few months until yesterday, home grown hops got me excited.. Simple APA 4.5kg pale 1.0kg Munich 0.2kg Carapils 200grms fresh picked Cascade flowers @60 1272 yeast Anyone got some tips on wet or dry hop flowers and amounts??

Just cubed an APA. 2.5kg pale malt 2.0kg vienna .5kg wheat malt .125kg carapils 2hr mash at 65deg 1hr boil with cascade at 60/20/0 1272 yeast is ready once chilled This is my first go with a liquid yeast, I canna wait..

Cheers Screwy, top brew..

I'm cooking with a $40 3 ring cast burner, run by a standard LP LPG BBQ reg. This brings my 40ltr pot to 70deg in 30mins and from there to a boil in another 15 to 20. I have knocked out 5 brews on this 9kg bottle so far. Just put a fire proof base under it and drop the pot on top, easy and cheap..

Making use of a day off mid week. Up to AG brew number 6 and 7 with these next two brews, loving the results for the minimal extra effort.. Aussie Pale: 3kg JW pale malt, .5kg JW wheat malt, .1kg carapils, 1kg rice cooked. 20gm Galaxy @40 and recultured Coopers yeast...

Planted my first rhizomes yesterday with 2 Cascade and one POR, they appear to be of a decent size with plenty of shoots. I will have them on the shed walls with height to grow of about 4 meters. I'm on the Victorian SW coast where shit just grows, so this should be good. Still have to set up...

I'm having a crack at this Amber at the moment, first go with S-04 and It seems to get out of the blocks well and dies in the arse half way through fermenting. It came down from 1048 to 1018 in 3 or so days, then slowed up to 1014 at day 6. Now at day 8 and its still slowly bubbling. Taste...