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whatevs, just make sure you throw an mouse in the keg to get that authentic CUB taste

should i be worried about botulism being present in a cube of jenkem? even if one was real anal about cleaning?

i was considering fkn around with lights, but that is whack anyways, from what i have read you can trick them with some 660nm for a couple of hours each night, and you can stop with the light once they start to flower apart from that, if you want more hops up here you just have to plant more

you could try adding less priming sugar. also, are you sure that primary fermentation has finished? and are you adding enzymes?

i was a teenage hand model

use some polystyrene to float on top to reduce surface area. use it to maintain mash temps too it might be worth trying to whirlpool with a pump

Screwy are they the blichman disconnects on the ends of your hoses? If yes, how do you rate them ?

so, about 10 minutes before flamouts you need to put finings into the kettle. i have forgotted to this lately and it is **** (unless your recipe has lots of wheat) wait until the convection eddies stop before starting to whirlpool, then wait until the whirlpool stops before you syphon when...

Tbh I pulled that number out of my clacker, but was alluding to the point that you would need to use more wet hops than you would dry After some poking about it seems that 4 or 5 times the dry amount is more like it. I read that commercially they are dried to about 80%

I think the general consensus is to use them late unless you are certain of their bitterness. And use about 8 times the weight of dry hops

my birthday is in feb so I am not allowed to partake in these unfrivolities Phew!!!

use this as a rough guide for your prices and add about $6 per sack for delivery http://www.craftbrewer.com.au/shop/details.asp?PID=869 and get a sack of carared while you are at it

Duke of Paddy - how good is it - free hops! just hope they don't get too wet...fkn damp here currently Mr No-Tip. - as suggested, they might need some more water and maybe even give it some seaweed solution...i remember all of mine looking brown and sickly like that after i transplanted them...

was tidying up the hop planters on the weekend and found that the goldings want to go another round

fark, i never thought about this...the last batch i dried were in the dehydrator for about 3 days, no heat just the fan they are mummified and have about 0.068% residual moisture...what have i done!?

Just bagged some more offerings: goldings - 50g shown + about 30g I had to dry off site; chinook - 75g; cascade - 80g; POR - 15g offsite Still got some POT and goldings left to ripen, thats if they don't suffer from flood damage :(

Fk yeah! I've just won the lotto therefore I can afford to hire a tun shoveler, a kettle scrubber and the best marketing team money can buy. All I would do is a bit of r&d with the head brewer then spend the rest of my time at dons cleaning racks and such

Any chance of using a pump & hx? Recirculating overnight at above mash out temps would reduce even more time the next day whilst reducing your chances of unwanted things growing in your sweet liquor

if you have the capacity to do doubles/triples/quads you can make a 'base' beer that gets a bittering addition and thats it, then when you need/want to ferment them, use argon's hopping method along with steeped crystal and/or roast malts as required to make various beers using the same base...

try annette's chilli spray http://www.annettemcfarlane.com/Doityourself.htm