Hop Yard

An amazing ACSI representation of my hop yard:

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| Willamette |
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| Mt Hood    |
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| Cascade    |
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| Tree      |
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Hop Harvest Photos

Today was harvest day for my tiny hop farm. It took about two hours out in the September sun to get everything. At the end I was a bit disappointed with the amount of hops that I harvested.



Cascade Hops
By far the biggest haul and the nicest smell. 67g


Mt Hood 17g


Willamette 10g

Hops for Homebrewing

Little video of my hops out back:

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Mash Lauter Tun Conversion

Here are some initial pics of my mash lauter tun conversion. My basic idea come from the Cheap & Easy 10 Gallon Rubbermaid MLT Conversion post on Homebrew Talk forums. But I was unable to find some of the needed parts and was left with a cooler that leaked.

I've gone with a simpler approach and so far so good. We're 30 minutes into the first leak test and there is nary a leak to be found.

This is just an initial test so I'm going to make it a bit nicer before I'm done. Once I'm sure that everything will work I'll detail my parts in case anyone else is interested.



In the end I'll fit a hose onto the "out" barb and be able to easily and quietly train the MLT into my pot for the boil.

More Hops

The Cascades are really coming along now. Not sure what I'll end up with at the end of the day since it's been so dry here this year. But at least I'll be able to brew some beer with some hops grown in Winnipeg!

Hops Are Here

Sorry for being quiet around here for the last little bit but the hops are coming along and the Rauchbier is aging. It's in the secondary now and has a gravity of 1.010 which was pretty low, lower then I thought it would be. This means that my apparent attenuation is somewhere around %84.38 percent...which is pretty good for me.

Here are my hop cones coming along: