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All Things Food / Re: Growing food - The Garden Thread

« on: May 29, 2013, 08:14:29 AM »

I got an olde irrigation dam like that up in the rafters of the barn. It has
faded from age and prolly dry rot.  Never used the thing so other than
spider hang out you are not getting help from me....lol I suspect
that you just don the hip? waders and forge ahead.

Hopefully I led you down a good potato patch path....

Quoting himself again I see...

 


Nah, my place is not big enough for hip waders.  I have some calf slappers.
I do keep a shovel on the wheeler though.

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All Things Food / Re: Growing food - The Garden Thread

« on: May 28, 2013, 09:28:15 PM »

Hey!  It has been a long cold spring in this country.

I saw euge post hugleculture and man the google images that come out of that will drive a gardener keeerazy.
Excellent!

Wow, it has been a while.  I ate the first strawberry yestern.  Good because the rhubarb is rockin.
Peas still retarded at 5 inches tall.  duh.
first lettuces and spinach ready.  Ate some first onion from last years regen.
garlic tall at 10 leaves
potatoes sprouting in new rehashed beds per vertical1
hops crazy prolific in early spring moisture and coolness; I hacked away over a hundred pounds of veg matter.

Might try and get some pics for the garden thread.

For now, I will leave you with the bliss of irrigating pasture in the west.
I loves me my headgate
the horses love the pasture,
and the compost loves the horses,
the garden loves the compost.

Umm yea, that is how I justify my hayburners as food. .....but I did get 6 plum trees in the ground this spring



Who knows about orange irrigation dams?  Good times.
Cheers!

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Beer Recipes / Re: The Maibock

« on: May 28, 2013, 04:10:24 PM »

Hmm.  I got the Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days.
Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.

Shucks; just thought I would toast the end of May
in the the Maibock Thread, since the 2013 Maibock is about to kick.

My 2012 was too sweet to our tastes, so this year I was at 7% with around 58 IBU.  Some homebrewer I know studying to be a judge called it an IPA.   Yea, not to style, but with the Perle to bitter and the homegrown Crystal and Hood...ohh she is spicy!

Cheers to Spring.

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All Things Food / Re: Growing food - The Garden Thread

« on: April 09, 2013, 03:16:03 PM »

Apricot looks to pop today.  Hoping for a nice harvest this year. No snow on the horizon yet.

I knew I should not have typed that, or even thought about it out loud.
Yep, snow and hard freeze tonight. 

I plucked my 3 spears of asparagus out of the garden this morning. 
Good thing I was able to stalk a couple pounds at my secret spot. 
Seems you need a n-ton of asparagus plants in the garden to get a meaningful harvest?

Got those peas in finally.  They had been soaking in a water glass for a week; germinated and had a nice little root poking.

Morticai:  Perennial chard? That sounds fantastic. Is it perennial because of where you live, or is it actually perennial?   The stuff I have here might be a bi-annual here if I let it.

Cheers.


 

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All Things Food / Re: Hot tip

« on: April 09, 2013, 02:57:02 PM »

Hold the salad please
but bring me a little sugar.   

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All Things Food / Re: Growing food - The Garden Thread

« on: April 05, 2013, 05:55:25 AM »

Wow. Very nice Andrew!

I need to plant peas.  Today maybe. Anyone soak peas prior to planting, or just dry to the hole?
 
Vert!  I see an asparagus poking up.  Nice and white.  ever tried keeping them buried eurostyle?

Apricot looks to pop today.  Hoping for a nice harvest this year. No snow on the horizon yet.

Cheers.

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Ingredients / Re: citra, sorachi ace, centennial

« on: April 05, 2013, 05:42:24 AM »

Hey, a little late to the party here.

I have tried this combo a couple times and I really like it.
one caveat:  and don't gasp your onion breath, but I add summit to the mix.

First attempt: Mix=.5 oz Citra, .5 Sorachi, .5 summit, .5 Cent

FWH 1oz Sorachi
2oz of mix @ 15, 10, 5, 0

My latest attempt had this hop sched:

2oz Crystal FWH
.5 Warrior @ 60

.5 Cent, .5 Summit, .5 Citra, .5 Sorachi @ 15, 5, 0 and hopstand

Dry hop (keg) 1oz Summit, 1 Cent, 1 sorachi, 1 Crystal


So, my trials of this combo have Summit in the mix, so perhaps it is not comparable.
However, I would urge you to add the sorachi.  I think the Citra is a little powerful over the sweet Cent.
You need something to cut that, to my tastes anyway.

Good luck.

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The Pub / Re: Any Lord of the Rings fans here?

« on: March 23, 2013, 06:46:01 AM »

I am a fan.

Loved the movie; it was my first 3D experience   so that may have had something to do with it.

I actually wanted to see it again.

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Hop Growing / Re: Bamboo Stakes?

« on: March 23, 2013, 06:38:57 AM »

I am going to say fresh bamboo stakes are a little smooth for good bine growth.

However, extending the twine down the bamboo, and perhaps circling the stake a couple times on the way down, will allow the hops to climb the bamboo.

True, probably not needed, but might be a nice visual as the plants fill out.

You might think about not pruning too much back on your first year plants.

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All Things Food / Re: What's for Lunch?

« on: March 19, 2013, 05:55:14 AM »

Hey, it is breakfast time here, and that sammich looks mighty tasty Phil.
I hate feeling self conscious about taking pictures of my food to post online.

Lunch.  I just packed a field breakfast/lunch.  Blueberry yogurt, banana, a couple pieces of cold wicked good pizza, mini doweled carrots, half of a suspiciously good looking green cucumber, some kinda healthy pseudo potato chips and a baggie of Whoppers made to look like Easter eggs.

I am still on coffee.

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The Pub / Re: A day at work

« on: March 19, 2013, 05:35:54 AM »

Wow, that is a pretty cool system. 
Do you change out the walls depending on the type of show?


I especially appreciated robot walking dude around :50. 

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Beer Recipes / Re: Nelson Pairings

« on: March 18, 2013, 07:12:07 AM »

I think Nelson/Simcoe/Chinook will make a killer IPA.

+1.  I recently went with a Mosaic and Nelson pairing.  Still fermenting.
Good luck.

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Going Pro / Re: blending beers

« on: March 18, 2013, 07:10:08 AM »

Interesting Jeff.  I will look for that talk.

Major...what ideas do you have for potential blending?  No worries if you do not want to give out your secret strategy.

I have been thinking about the possibilities of an "American Radler".  Perhaps a pale or American wheat mixed with 'homemade lemon-lime soda'?  You know, a nice spring spritzer for the masses? mmmm, the Yellowhammer Shandy!

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Going Pro / Re: blending beers

« on: March 17, 2013, 07:57:21 AM »

It's pretty easy to blend liquids. Like, fill the glass halfway with one, then fill it the rest of the way with the other.

The only place I've had that done was at the Rockslide (which you probably know), and the bartender did that to compensate for flaws in the beers.

 , funny stuff.  That place could definitely use some creative bar tending.


I am thinking about blending prior to the bar stool, so your concoction comes out of the tap.
Like, as a brewer, you actually thought about the blend, calculated ratios, carbonation levels, etc.

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All Things Food / Re: Growing food - The Garden Thread

« on: March 17, 2013, 07:47:55 AM »

last years started poking out about a month ago.

Wooee!  Volunteer potatoes are excellent; always the first new potatoes to be harvested here.
 
I caught the first yellow rhubarb leaf poking up yesterday, as well as a few garlic shoots.

Made the mistake of deciding on a new spot for peas and cucumbers
right where a Centennial crown has been living for a few years.
Holy crap, removing an established hop plant by hand is no fun.

Also got the fruit trees trimmed. 
I love to prune, but am bad about picking up the branches.

Yea, hear ya Vert on the potato rotation. 
Wish I had some raised beds I could swap out!  Making new potato beds is a chore.