OTH Brewer's Garden Almost Complete

Welcome back to Off The Hinge Brewing!  The Garden is coming along and the hops are growing like crazy!  Today I set up some coarse twine for the hops to grow up.  It appears that the Chinook are leading the pack with Cascades in a close second and Zeus, well they are trying to keep up.  If you are interested in growing your own hops I found a cool article with several tips and info check it out at http://home.netcom.com/~dluzanp/backyard.htm

Chinook

Zeus

Cascade

OFF THE HINGE ESTATE HOPS

Stars & Bars Polly Olly is bottled and conditioning.  This was one helluva time.  Murphy's Law was in full swing.  It all started when my White Sox lost a close one to the Nationals.  Damn Inter league play!  Moving on...I was not in the best mood, however I needed to bottle the beer.  So, I rushed and got everything setup in my usual way.  I filled a 750 ml bottle only to find out that the cap did not fit the top of that bottle.  I had already lost beer to the hop absorption and I did not want to pour it back  risking oxidation.  Next, I was capping a bottle when all of the sudden the neck of the bottled crumbled and shattered cutting my thumb.  Lastly, as I was tipping the last of the liquid from the elevated bucket and it fell onto the bottles knocking them over like bowling pins.  Hopefully, they will be fine.  I am just glad that it is over...  That is all for now folks, remember to drink good beer responsibly and be merry.  Cheers!   

Transferring to bottling bucket 

Bottle Tree

Stars & Bars