Homegrown Hops

Last week while I was at Maltose Express picking up brewing supplies, I also bought some hop rhizomes to plant. These rhizomes will grow into hop bines so we can brew with our own hops. I bought Willamette, Newport and Galena hops and planted them in pots. They will be transferred to a planter this afternoon. The Galena and Newport already have active shoots. The bines will grom to over 18 feet tall if allowed. We/re gonna start with an 8 to 10 foot trellis and then run them our over the yard. I'll post more pics once we plant them and update them as they grow.

The three planted rhizomes

Galena has shoots started

Newport has some shoots too

Hops planter that I built. The bottom has already been removed

SBBC Brew Day. 5-25-2013

Good Morning Everyone. Our next brew day will be Saturday, May 25th, 2013. 12 noon start. I'm thinking we should brew a pale ale for the summer months coming up. Please feel free to bring food and beer with you. Please RSVP so we can get a head count for food.

Call or email me with any questions. Thanks.

CT Beer Week 2013

Good afternoon beer lovers. I just want to send out a hello and pass along some very, very important info along. May 11 through May 18 is the first annual CT Beer Week.

This is a big deal people! This is YOUR week. This is your week to get out there and drink some local, CT brewed beer. So get out there and get some!

CT Beer Week

Here is a link to the list of associated events: CT Beer Week Events

This week is also Cask Wednesday at Cavalry Brewing in Oxford. I'm sure Mike and Justin will have something special planned for CT Beer Week.

For anyone with Untappd, there is a CT Beer Week 2013 Untappd Badge. You have to check in at two of the listed venues between May 11th and May 18th.

Here is a list: Untappd CT Beer Week Venues