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Hey everybody
I've been brewing for a number of years now, but have never heard of this site 'til today. I'm positive you'll be hearing a lot from me.

I still do the primary bucket/secondary carboy thing, but I'm planning on taking it up a step or 2 in the very near future (as soon as my brewhouse is finished being built.)

I also grow hops; Cascades and Fuggles are in their 2nd year, and Mt Hood, Galena, and Nuggets were added this spring. So far so good, as long as I keep picking the caterpillars. :S

HopGrower wrote: So far so good, as long as I keep picking the caterpillars. :S

youre supposed to be picking hops, not caterpillars! i think some others had been having issues with caterpillars as well. welcome!

HopGrower wrote:Hey everybody
I've been brewing for a number of years now, but have never heard of this site 'til today.

What happened today?

Pointed to it by a guy from the jeep club.

HopGrower wrote:Pointed to it by a guy from the jeep club.

And welcome sir... Great wealth of resources from these guys, you'll like it here i'm sure..


edit: post up that pic of your hop setup

30 plants here in Lantz, another 30 at my folks' farm outside of Antigonish.



And here are the little bastards...

No one will accuse you of having hands not used to work,

Welcome to the Brewnosers.

Quite the set-up.

Tony L wrote:No one will accuse you of having hands not used to work,

If you seen how he's building is garage, you'd understand.....LOL

Jmac00 wrote:

Tony L wrote:No one will accuse you of having hands not used to work,

If you seen how he's building is garage, you'd understand.....LOL

All hand tools? No power tools?

Tony L wrote:

Jmac00 wrote:

Tony L wrote:No one will accuse you of having hands not used to work,

If you seen how he's building is garage, you'd understand.....LOL

All hand tools? No power tools?

pretty much.....shovel and wheel barrow.

CorneliusAlphonse wrote:

HopGrower wrote: So far so good, as long as I keep picking the caterpillars. :S

youre supposed to be picking hops, not caterpillars! i think some others had been having issues with caterpillars as well. welcome!

If you don't pick the caterpillars, you won't get to pick the hops

HopGrower wrote:Pointed to it by a guy from the jeep club.

Ah, drinking and driving. They seem to go hand in hand.

derek wrote:

CorneliusAlphonse wrote:

HopGrower wrote: So far so good, as long as I keep picking the caterpillars. :S

youre supposed to be picking hops, not caterpillars! i think some others had been having issues with caterpillars as well. welcome!

If you don't pick the caterpillars, you won't get to pick the hops

I think it's time for a caterpillar thread in the food forum.

KMcK wrote: I think it's time for a caterpillar thread in the food forum.

Heh, I was thinking that too; a section dedicated to hops, malting, etc.

Jmac00 wrote:

Tony L wrote:

Jmac00 wrote:
If you seen how he's building is garage, you'd understand.....LOL

All hand tools? No power tools?

pretty much.....shovel and wheel barrow.

Yeah I'm kinda mental like that.

HopGrower wrote:

KMcK wrote: I think it's time for a caterpillar thread in the food forum.

Heh, I was thinking that too; a section dedicated to hops, malting, etc.

I was thinking cooking.

KMcK wrote: I was thinking cooking.

Quite possibly delicious!