Archive for May, 2009

growing hops: prep

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Yesterday Jim (the tough guy in the photo) and I dug up a huge chunk of my parents lawn to make way for my hops. This all came about after a conversation last week with my mom – the green thumb – about possibly doing this next year. To my surprise she suggested we could [...]

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advice

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

My gear comes tomorrow. Stoked. In between hitting F5 on the FedEx page every 30 seconds I’ve been looking over ‘general advice’ threads on homebrew forums, reddit, etc. Here are some of the clutch quotes, musings: You’re going to fuck up. Don’t let that scare you. You have to drink beer while making beer. Read [...]

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getting started

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

I’m not entirely sure when it dawned on me; in retrospect, I’m surprised it took so long to realize I needed to start homebrewing ASAP. When the last week of school wrapped up for me in March, unemployment loomed in the future. To keep my sanity I was determined to immerse myself in something, and [...]

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