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As always, sorry for the lax posting efforts. The summer has been flying by and I haven’t brewed in a while now. Here is a quick update on my hops. This year has been tough on them. As you’ll see in the video the Japanese Beetles had their way with my Centennial Hops. The Cascade [...]
This past week I was fortunate enough to get to visit with Tim Manchego from Pompey Mountain Hops Farm in Pompey New York. I found this after an article in the local news paper about Tim’s operation ran and was brought to my attention. Initially, I wanted to get up there during hops harvest to [...]
This past weekend I picked the last of my hops and prepped the vines for winter. According to the hops stuff I’ve been reading, you cut the hops vines down to about 3″ sticking out of the ground. From there, you just take the vines, cut off the hops, and dry. Simple enough.
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So after watching Ben’s video about trimming and harvesting hops, I decided to test out my new camera and Ben’s advice. Here is what I came up with:
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I am constantly in search of good videos and instructional material on homebrewing. Ben from Benshomebrew.com created the following video that explains in great detail the art of home brew hops harvest. In the process of finding his video, I also found a cool one on commercial hops harvest.
Ben’s video
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Please Click on the image because Wordpress sucks ass and won’t let me publish a slideshow.
I know that I have been a very poor blogger in the last few weeks and for that I am sorry. While my brewing and blogging diligence has failed, my hops have continued to grow. As you can see, I [...]
This weekend I was able to totally complete the hops trellis project. I have to say, I am really pleased with how this turned out. It’s not only a fully functional trellis, it also adds some curb appeal to the house (IMO anyway).
First off, earlier this week I hung the cross supports on the 4×4 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
