WILD HOPS!

our second foray to get wild hops turned out well this weekend. erik stefan and i harvested the same bush i found last time, and we collected about 2lb’s in the end (ish). the good news is we found an even larger field of hops, growing over a bunch of blackberries!

Hop Field

so we intend on going out again during the week, with many more people, to collect as many as we can while they are still good!

i cant wait to brew beer with hand picked wild hops!

Hop harvest

been busy, sorta

no excuses. i forgot to post since i got back from my tumbler trip.

anyways. ill make a general post in that case, that kinda covers everything.

first off, i made the greatest discovery ever yesterday.
wild hops.
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we drive past them, and i stopped, looked again, grabbed one, tasted it, and was like, HOPS! so i began to collect as many as i could before anyone saw me. wasnt sure if it was allowed or not..

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going to use em in the next brew, but i have to decide what to make first. it should be special!

Okay, going onwards back to last week, i fixed the discus glider.
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i took her out, did some overhand throws, everything seemed good. i tried one low power discus throw, landed, and totally chickened out of further throws. i dont want to crunch her again, so i want to talk to some pro’s, who, i have to find first!

also went flying with dan’s cousins from alberta last week, they wanted me to drop their parachute guy from the airpane, so we did a bunch of drops with the guy and some small plastic bombs.

here they are getting ready for the next launch
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lastly, a few pictures from when i was at site that i want to highlight.

saw some beavers, and they warned us not to get close!
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Heres me surveying one of the crests in the pit.
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and finally, had a chance to ride the ATV they had at site! totally cool and fun.
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That pretty much sums up the last 2 weeks or so.

brewin

oops, i forgot to mention i got back on thursady night. i have the pictures uploaded, but i didnt blog about them yet.

dan got back on friday, so we have been brewing both yesterday and today. today we also went flying with his little cousins, and we did all kinds of bomb drops and parachute drops with the piper cub. lots of fun.