The Fifty Meter Beer Project Part 7 – Babies!
We’re in the midst of a drought and heatwave, so the barley and hops are growing a little slow. But we also got some new babies on the farm!
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The Fifty Meter Beer Project Part 6 – Stealth Hops!
New Fifty Meter Peer Project video! Today we’re planting some stealth (and less-stealthy) hops, checking out the barley, and taking a quick look around the farm.
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The Fifty Meter Beer Project Part 5 – Transplanting the Hops
The hop cuttings have grown well, so its time to put them in soil. Plus, Link – our buck – makes a brief appearance.
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Garlic Hop Shoots Raclette
Every spring we cut back the early shoots on our hops. Don’t waste them! They are delicious, and this is my favorite way to prepare them.
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The Fifty Meter Beer Project Part 4 – Time to Make Some Hop Cuttings.
My hops have been growing like made. It’s time to trim the bull shoots, and pot some hop cuttings so I can expand my hop yard.
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The Fifty Meter Beer Project Part 3 – Barley is Up!
I’m a week into the fifty meter beer project. The barley has sprouted, and the hops are going wild!
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The Fifty Meter Beer Project Part 2 – Planting Barley
April 8th, 2023. Day 2 of my fifty meter beer project, and today I’m planting the barley beds that I
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Introduction to the The Fifty Meter Beer Project
New project! I am going to produce a beer entirely from ingredients grown on my farm. I’m planting barely & hops, using wild yeasts, and even using water from an old well. This is a quick overview of the project, and a quick look around the farm.
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Wild Brettanomyces – Fermentation Tests
The final post in the 2022/2023 hunt for wild Brettanomyces. Here, I look at the fermentation characteristics of the two species of Brettanomyces I successfully isolated this fall.
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Animalcules in Winter (& a bad poem)
My next Animalcules video is up. This episode shows some of the microorganisms which survive – frozen – in the harsh Canadian winter.
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