Categories
Archives
Lakeside Mailing List
Enter your e-mail address to sign up for the Lakeside Brewers' Guild mailing list.
Category Archives: Hops
Adventures in Blow-Off Tubes
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 [...]
Also posted in Homebrewing, Hops Gardening Leave a comment
Trellises, Bottled Wit, and Future Brewing Plans
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 [...]
Also posted in Homebrewing, Hops Gardening Leave a comment
Mulch and Teabagging, But Not Together
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 [...]
Also posted in Homebrewing, Hops Gardening Leave a comment
Revenge of Mt. Hood