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Progress update

April 29th, 2009 travis No comments

Since there is a plague in Mexico, no vacation for me.  In light of that, I’m going to continue to work on my hops trellis.  Last night I cut two twelve foot 1×6’s into six four foot pieces.  On each piece I cut a 10″ angle from the end that left a small 2″ piece.
I’ve [...]

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Hops Trellis Stage 1

April 20th, 2009 travis 6 comments

So this weekend I started my hops trellis project.  It’s been a pretty crazy process because I changed my design once, and when I was at home Depot, I changed it back.  I think for the better, but we’ll see.
Pictured below are the post markers for where my 4×4 posts went.  I purchased 3 8ft [...]

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Hops trellis time!

April 17th, 2009 travis 2 comments

Not to be out done by my toothless neighbors to the south, it’s time that I finally made a proper hops trellis.  With that in mind, I’ve decided on a design.  The picture above is a concept that I am going to use in my design, tonight I am going to make some measurements and [...]

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A few odds and ends

April 10th, 2009 travis No comments

So over the past few weeks I’ve been pretty tied up with life and have not had a lot of time for brewing.  This has not stopped my from trying new beers though.  This is a Maredsous 8, a Belgian Dubbel that gets much BA’er love with an A- rating (I know, BA ratings are [...]

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Brewing video from the 1930's

April 1st, 2009 travis No comments

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1f7m31b_HE]
This is a pretty cool video that was posted by Final Gravity.  Great find.  I don’t speak German, but any brew enthusiast should be able to follow this.  It looks like a double decoction on the front end of this, anyone else agree?

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