anybody boiling their wort lately?

  • lhprop1
    Eagan
    Posts: 1899
    February 11, 2013 at 6:56 pm #1140500

    I’m not boiling wort, but I just added the yeast to the must last night.

    icenutz
    Aniwa, WI
    Posts: 2536
    February 11, 2013 at 7:05 pm #1140503

    If anyone needs some Hops let me know, we grew a bunch this year and are offering some for free. This coming year we hope to have a bigger crop and be able to sell some.

    We have several different kinds growing, Cascade, Nugget, Mt. Hood, and Magnum.

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22456
    February 11, 2013 at 7:12 pm #1140509

    no, but I burned through a case

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    February 11, 2013 at 7:19 pm #1140512

    Hey Nutz! I’ll take some of your hands! How did you package it after harvest?

    Doug

    c_hof
    New Richmond, WI
    Posts: 256
    February 11, 2013 at 8:09 pm #1140533

    I will probably be boiling a batch in a couple of weeks.

    Nutz – how easy were the hopps to grow? I have been thinking of growing some of my own. Where did you get your rhisomes?

    John Schultz
    Inactive
    Portage, WI
    Posts: 3309
    February 11, 2013 at 8:50 pm #1140555

    I’ve been traveling for work non-stop since about October. I have no time to boil anything other than my temper. I do have a coffee stout that I did a while back and haven’t tried. I should probably try that and see what it turned out like.

    castle-rock-clown
    Posts: 2596
    February 11, 2013 at 9:18 pm #1140580

    It’s in the primary, what I hope will be a not too sweet milk stout. I reduced the lactose by one/half and added one pound honey. Should be good to go in about 8 weeks. What variety hopps did you grow?

    erod61
    Posts: 45
    February 11, 2013 at 9:50 pm #1140608

    Blonde ale with a centennial/cascade hop schedule this weekend!

    muskie-tim
    Rush City MN
    Posts: 838
    February 12, 2013 at 1:57 am #1140707

    Boiled up a pilsner a couple weeks ago it is lagering now. Just pitched some yeast on the must tonight. The Shiraz and the pilsner should be ready to bottle about the same time.

    muskie-tim
    Rush City MN
    Posts: 838
    February 12, 2013 at 1:59 am #1140709

    Yeah I could take some off your hand also. A guy can never have enough hops.

    icenutz
    Aniwa, WI
    Posts: 2536
    February 12, 2013 at 1:43 pm #1140794

    The hops are easy to grow, but you need to have something for them to climb. We sunk 12 telephone poles, ( 2 rows of 6 poles), and strung 1/4 steel cable horizontal across the top of each row and another cable horizontal across the bottom of each row about 1 foot off the ground. Each pole was about 15 feet apart. We planted the hops roughly 5 feet apart under the bottom cable

    You then need to run rope vertically from the bottom cable to the top cable. You want to run a lot of these beacuse this is what the Hops climb on.

    The first years harvest is not the best and each year after you should get more and more Hops for about 7 years, at which point the Hops will need to be replanted.

    My cousin order the Hops online, I’m not sure where but I will find out.

    We hung the Hops vines in a storage barn that my cousin has and we pick them as needed for brewing. Normally you would vacuum seal and freeze them for storage.

    Please contact me off line and we can arrange getting some to you.

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