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[tacticalogic]

What would you recommend with bacon and jalapeno hushpuppies?

[mirkwood]

[Libloather]

Drinking AND smoking? Never heard of it...

[JimRed]

Bump for later.

[djf]

Stout is IN and BUBBLIN!

Started preppin last Monday night, doing some preliminary cleaning and getting my starter going.

Starter had abt 1/2 pack of Safale 04 and qtr tsp of yeast nutrient.

Was going hells bells Tuesday afternoon so I figured it was now o never... dissolved the sugar (recipe call for 1 kg of sugar, 2.2 lbs, I used closer to 3 lbs.)

Added the malt and got everything in the carboy, but it was still way overtemp, do I put it in the sink, surrounded it with water and ice cubes, till it was down to about 75.

Pitched the starter and after about an hour was seeing foam at the top. let it set for another fours hours or so, then pitched the other half of the pack of yeast just to give it a kick. Foamed over the first night, but lately the foaming action has slowed down, now there are BUBBLES, I mean BIG BUBBLES coming up. In my coupla years of brewing I’ve never seen it actually bubble instead of more foam, kinda weird.

Recipe is enough for 6 gallons, so at some point in the next two days, I will separate off a bit and dilute it down just a touch.

I absolutely love this stout. As much a food as it is a beer!

[Jayster]

I posted last year when I ordered 8 varieties of Hops. All of them came back this year and are doing really well. So well that I am taking some of the Bines and cloning them to give away to friends that want some.

I might take some pics and post them as the are starting to go up the twine now. The Cascade is going crazy and is already about 12 feet up the twine. That is the one that I am taking the cutting from for the clones.

With 8 varieties and the ability to get dozens of clones off of each plant, I should be busy.

A bine is a climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support. It is distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers. The stems of many bines are rough or have downward-pointing bristles to aid their grip. The rotation of the shoot tip during climbing is autonomous, and does not (as sometimes imagined) derive from the shoot following the sun around the sky – the direction of twist does not therefore depend upon which side of the equator the plant is growing. This is shown by the fact that some bines always twine clockwise, including runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus) and bindweed (Convolvulus species), while others twine anticlockwise, including French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and climbing honeysuckles (Lonicera species).

[Hotmetal]

Sampling my first Blackberry Melomel(mead).