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Thought this might be interesting. From the local paper (Sept 12, 2011):

I used jute the first 2 years but the only jute twine I could find wasn't very thick stuff. In my experience, about 50% would break when the plant started to "bush" out. All it takes is for the twine to get wet, then a small breeze will usually put the works in a heap on the ground. This year...

Almost never anymore but I heavily relied on recipes when I first started brewing. With beers that I brew over & over, yes. Other than that, it's usually a one time thing. Rarely, but the few times that I have have been good. A few years ago, on a whim, I made a coconut curry brown ale...

Yes. Some more so than others - my Centennials are very very purple, Mt Hood quite purple, same with Cascade. The others I have are more green than purple, but with red tinges.

No need. Twice I've seen my hops emerge in spring when the weather warmed, but then things turned and we had daytime highs of -10C for a week. Since my Hallertauer is on the South side of the house, it is always the first to emerge, even before all the snow is gone. Even with the week of...

Buy a used child car seat. They hold a full carboy perfectly, and you can even belt them in to keep them from rolling around. :P ...Don't ask me how I know this. B)

Harvest will probably commence in about 4 weeks depending on the weather.

Since I was asked to post recent pics... Close-up of the Hallertauer cones (still immature):

Actually SSRs are more robust/less finicky than mechanical relays in my experience. A mechanical relay has a fixed lifetime expressed in the number of switching operations it can perform. This number is a ballpark estimate of the actual number of switching operations it can endure. Each...

For my 1st generation HERMS I bolted the SSR directly to the aluminum enclosure. Although the enclosure got warm, it never got hot. If I had to guess I'd say it would get to ~35C at most. The SSR is rated at 20A/240V and it was switching a 1500W 120V heating element. For a 9A/240V load, your...

From L to R at the back of the house, Centennial, Centennial, Willamette, Cascade, Cascade. The hop running from the house to the trellis on the right is a Mt Hood. Better view of the Mt Hood with the Cascade and Willamette in the background. Golding. Fuggle on the left and Hallertauer...

Search youtube for Kenny Powers K-Swiss for others.

My inlaws used to have a pear tree with almost inedible fruit - very sour. It produced fantastic perry. Made it twice before they sold the place and I lost access to the pears. It's important to leave the pears on the tree for as long as possible. Once they get so ripe that they start...

Got ya beat. ;)

To be honest there is really no "Canadian" blonde that I've ever sampled or know of. Blonde ales are actually very rare here (in the western part of the country anyway). The only time most people around here will brew one is when they want to brew a fruit beer. Just formulate a recipe that...

Hello parenthood, goodbye sleep! ;) Seriously though, congratulations! :super:

Sorry for going AWOL. I'm having a devil of a time with the AHB site since upgrading. No matter what I do or what browser I use, I can't stay logged in, so that makes posting a chore. [posting this via an older laptop, BTW] Tried IE8, IE9, chrome, firefox, and opera, all with the same...

;) I run a couple very 'intense' programs and the extra RAM helps - a lot. Schematic editor and PCB layout and video editing. It's kind of a habit as I've always jammed as much RAM as I could into every system I've owned. For the hell of it I downloaded and ran the CPU benchmark program...

This one.

You'd have to look up your processor here. Depends on which particular one you have, but you're in the ballpark with the one I have. Only big difference is price.