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Tats? Hmmmm, stop at a nursing home and look around. What will those tats look like in 60 years?
poutine
My wife is cooking for a change, I'm drinking homebrew, lawn is mowed for the last time this year. Yep, life is good.
12,000 town should be large enough to support you (if you have appealing story, good food and good beer).
When you talk about a brewpub you talk about available seating first instead of brew system.
If you can not sell enough beer to justify the brewing expense, just buy the beer from distributor.
but with Kerry Collins, we won't suck as bad as if we had to rely on Curtis Painter. And I assume the Colts still can't stop the run and can't run it themselves...
WHAT!?Those are 'wet'/fresh weights - so about 2 lb dry.
More than 10 lbs from 2 plants!?
Good God!
I'm hanging it up.
I only get about 5 oz per plant.
Contact James Altwies at Gorst Valley Hops. They run a small hop farm in the midwest, and run workshops on how to grow your own as a small scale farmer. The next intro one is in a few weeks in Madison WI: http://www.gorstvalleyhops.com/hops101.php
I'd be tempted to make the brewer go with you to help him understand the financials and work involved.
Definitely NOT a dry climate here - East coast Maritime climate, but you raise a good point. I was talking to a a guy who runs a farmers' coop last night and discovered that they grow hops. He was excited to find out that I am a home brewer and could put him in touch with other home brewers. He has a surplus that he didn't sell to his contracted breweries. He's less than an hour away and I blieve there is another farm about 90 minutes in the other direction. A partnership makes a lot more sense.You might cut the bine at the bottom a day or 2 before to make bine and leaves and cones dry alittle might make picking easier.
I cut off some bines the other day, and then had to leave town for a couple days. I found out that plucking the cones off a semi dried bine is a PITA, and much harder than normal green picking.
akr71, where are you located? Are there other small time growers in the area? Around here in western Colorado, some small time farmers are banding together and trying to set up a regional oast, as well as hop picking equipment that can be shared.
If you are in a dry climate, an uninsulated metal shed works really well as an oast....
Andy, looked up hops in NS Canada. Found A guy Josh Herbin in Wolfville. He received a grant to grow hops in 2007 and planted a acre. I dont know your location to his but maybe make a joint venture or see what he does.
Don't disount the labor involved with tending your hops through the season. The harvest can be tough. A guy in the club has about 1/2 acre planted with a partner, and they need the help of the brew crew from theh brewrey that buys them to harvest the hops that go directly into a beer.
THIS! People seem to think that after you plant them, they grow by themselves and that's all you have to do. The harvesting, and especially the drying and packaging, are where all the work is. This is not intended to discourage the OP, but just to make sure he thinks his plan through.
Don't disount the labor involved with tending your hops through the season. The harvest can be tough. A guy in the club has about 1/2 acre planted with a partner, and they need the help of the brew crew from theh brewrey that buys them to harvest the hops that go directly into a beer.I haven't forgotten that. Hops are very labor intensive (on a small scale). In previous years, my brewer friend has rounded up members of our club to harvest for/with him in exchange for a couple pounds to take home with them and beer & lunch on harvest day.
If he is makeing a harvest / fresh hop ale from my understanding your not drying the hops, your picking and brewing. You might cut the bine at the bottom a day or 2 before to make bine and leaves and cones dry alittle might make picking easier.I understand that, but if I'm going to do this, I want to recoup my investment quicker than hops for 1 or 2 harvest ales a year at a brewpub. At rate of 4lb/bbl, that is 14 lbs hops for a 3.5bbl system - 70lbs of fresh hops. I harvested more than 10lbs of of 2 plants, so I would need a minimum of 14 plants, more for safety sake. 4 rows of 10 plant each is going to take up less than a tenth of an acre, but going to yield more than a metric crapton than he can use in a couple batches a year.