Category Archives: Homebrewing

Adventures in Blow-Off Tubes

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2008-06-30
I’ve never actually made a beer that required a blow-off tube, but I recently received some German hefeweizen yeast from Allen in the Lakeside Brewers’ Guild, which he said would easily clog up a traditional airlock. Because the beer my wife made was still in my plastic primary fermenter, I decided to get really crazy [...]
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Trellises, Bottled Wit, and Future Brewing Plans

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2008-06-10
It finally got hot outside, so it started to make me think about getting the trellises for the hops up. In about three hours and seventy dollars, I managed to get some trellises up that should support my meager hops bed. But I am getting ahead of myself, because I really should talk about the [...]
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Mulch and Teabagging, But Not Together

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2008-05-26
I finally got time to do some serious yard work, and to spare the rest of the details, I have the extra manure and mulch on the hops now. This should hopefully kill off the multitude of weeds that were quite obvious in previous pictures. The bines are still short, but look way better with [...]
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Hops and Dandelions

By Brian Glenn | Published: 2008-05-14
The hops are still coming along, and everything is looking quite green in the bed right now. This is mainly because of all the maple tree and other seeds that have landed on top of the dirt. Fortunately, the bines are tall enough to be seen separately. The underdog left side is growing taller and [...]
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