Monthly Archives: May 2013

I have been brewing on the Morebeer B3-200 since I started brewing all grain.  It’s the most basic setup:  two orange coolers, a brew kettle, and some tubing.  The bulkheads, the spigots, and the fittings are all original–which makes them 10 years old.  I have replaced tubing, of course, and I added a 1/2″ stainlessContinueContinue reading “Home Brewery Upgrade–Limitations of my Current Setup”

Just a quick update: I came home this evening to find three tiny sprouts pushing their way through the soil to sunlight!They look like this…See my Hops Page for the full photo documentary of my first year of hop “farming.”

This weekend I planted three Centennial hop rhizomes.I’m apparently planting late in the season, and I definitely don’t have a green thumb.  But, I like the thought of brewing up something this fall using fresh hops grown in my own back yard, so I thought I’d give it a try.I planted the rhizomes in aContinueContinue reading “Growing Hops”