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Ah fair play! How deep do I need to bury the rhizomes?

Sure thing but does it matter if they become intertwined being as they are the same species?

They’re sending them out now for me. I’m assuming that although not the usual time of year (from info off their site) it states that hops can be planted at any time but they do like the winter cold to establish themselves. So I guess they will just stay dormant in the ground until next spring...

Well fingers crossed 🤞 that they’re ok, I’ve ordered 5 of them.

Prima Donna (First Gold) - Hop Plant | Essentially Hops Is this a plant or rhizome? Would it be worth getting 3 of these now as they’re so cheap and just put them in the ground at the allotment and build the support set up next year once it starts the growing process?

I’ve been thinking something like this, this however was at a national trust property so my version of it would be 3x3 uprights and an old ladder across for hops to train along. Would this be suitable?

Hey, my mum has an allotment and has said I can use part of it for growing hops, the rules are it can’t be growing higher than 6 foot or so but I thought I could train some hops to grow along a trellis or fence- is this feasible? Also what variety should I be hoping to get a decent yield from in...

Yeah, just another reason to homebrew

Whats jdw? Apparently it’s only lower % for the uk market according to Google. So sick of the uk crapping all over Belgian beers. First Stella now leffe

I’m really quite disgusted at this, why the hell have they changed the abv of leffe blonde from 6.6% to 6%?! I only checked the back of the bottle as it tasted watery and thin. Guess I wont be drinking leffe in the uk ever again.

Well I managed to get the darkness I wanted in the end, it only took me around 3 hours 😂😂

I cooked it for well over an hour. I don’t think I could watch a sugar thermometer bounce between hard ball and soft crack for over an hour and a half … surely I must be missing something. I’ve seen other recipes for dark Candi using soft brown sugar/ is t is the way forward?

I’m trying to make a batch of dark Candi sugar for a quad I’m making on Monday but I can’t get it to darken past an amber colour. Any advice at all?

I’ve decided to go for it, I went foraging yesterday and collected 80g worth of pretty much just the flowers plus the very fine green stems that attach directly to the flowers- these are about half an inch long. We’ve done cordial in the past and never worried about chucking the green stems in...

I’ve been wanting to do a marshmallow stout for ages now! Does anyone have any experience with this? My thoughts are that any marshmallows added to the boil will just add to overall sugar that will be 100% fermented out? Is it a case of using marshmallow flavouring? Can anyone recommend a...

Holy crap! Errr I think you may have just turned me off the idea entirely!!

I wonder how this recipe would taste substituting the wlp590 for just plain old Nottingham yeast, what do you think?

When you say a litre of fresh flowers how did you measure that? I was thinking of just picking a certain amount of floret heads?

Are there any elderflower recipes that arnt saisons? Was thinking just a pale ale with elderflowers added at the end of the boil?

Thanks for the info!