Ingredients for beer go up in price causes increas

[Swimmy]

Ingredients for beer go up in price causes increase in the beverage itself

It's official, beer prices are going to go up.

[countrygal]

I told my husband we need to start growing hops!

[kim]

swimmy said:

Ingredients for beer go up in price causes increase in the beverage itself

It's official, beer prices are going to go up.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excuse me...I need to run over to Costco and stock up on beer!

[Clipper]

Wow, countrygal. Grow hops, sell them to the brewery, buy them back in brewery grains for the cows and things have gone full circle. Better than that other cash crop that they spot from the air and come in and harvest before it has reached maturity, haha.

Heck, empty out that liquid manure tank, fill'er up with water from nine-mile and all the other ingredients, and let'r ferment. "Voila" you have several thousand gallons of "rolling rock" to sell to unsuspecting pennsylvanians, LOL

[countrygal]

hahahaha! Yes, we've had that "other" crop in our corn fields and had to call the State Police to come harvest it. Some people have a lot of nerve.

Believe me....we'll look into it!

[neveramazed]

New York state (otsego county especially) used to be a leading producer of hops. Why not again? Seems like there is a demand.
www.upstatechunk.com/beer/hops/nyhistory.htm

[onjeesun]

I would have replied to this earlier but I was out to Marcy discount picking up 20 cases of beer.

Home brewing ! The wave of the future.

(I remember when it was home growing......home grown's all right with me. Another old song reference.)

[Clipper]

I remember when I was a young boy, we used to go out through Deansboro and Oriskany Falls on our way to visit relatives in Bouckville. From Clinton to Oriskany Falls, there were structures that looked like teepees made out of poles, that were used, I assume, to dry the hops to harvest the blossoms. I imagine someone might have more knowledge or recollection of the true facts, but I think hops was a major crop in that area at the time. There also used to be huge bean and pea fields that were harvested by migrant workers. You could drive by there at night and see campfires burning around the migrant shacks and hear singing from the workers, relaxing after a day in the fields.

I also remember the horrible smell of the pea vines, rotting or fermenting, being trucked through clinton for one reason or another. Maybe they were used for silage. I remember they made the smell of chicken manure, smell like lilacs, haha.

Well, country gal, when I come up this summer, maybe I can help build "teepees" in marcy, haha. I wouldn't be intersted in staying in migrant workers quarters, but if you were to build a logcabin overlooking Nine-mile, I might be convinced to spend my summers tending the hops.LOL

[Clipper]

Hmm. Troopers harvesting weed?? I wonder if that is why we saw troopers sitting on the side of the road with the whole back seat filled with dorito bags, and a glaze over their eyes. LOL
(only kidding of course) Sounds like state sponsored munchies to me.

[countrygal]

We often wondered if all of it gets destroyed or not! lol

Hop growing does seem like a lot of work. Not just plant and harvest kind of crops. It's more like a vine. If we had more time, it would be interesting to grow I think.

[losjibaros]

if you didnt clean the manure tank out and just started brewing.. well the brewery might sue you.. i think that is the recipe for MATTS.....



there is a wives tale that if you grow the hemp between the corn rows.. infared will not pick it up.. doesnt really do you and good when the farmers bring the roundup cart thru....

[countrygal]

No..they plant it after we spray. Usually in the middle of the night. We rented a field from a sheriff's deputy once and we harvested the corn a bit early that year and found a huge plot in the middle. Boy was he pissed that someone would plant that on his field. He had a couple of ideas who it was but couldn't prove it. I"ll be the person that planted it was pissed that he didn't get it off before we found it! It was worth a lot.

My stepfather has started drinking Old Mil. He says it's pretty good.

[frankcor]

Don't count on it, Los. With today's satelite optics and imaging software, I'll bet they can spot a single canabis plant growing in a corn field. And don't start growing in your basement, either. The utility company will drop a dime on you when your electric bill suddenly shoots up.

Ahhh, Amerika, home of the brave, land of the formerly free.

[Swimmy]

I think they're only allowed to use technology that would be readily available to the general public, e.g. an airplane or helicopter. But I could be confusing legal doctrines. It's all just a huge blur in my head right now.