Harvest time!

It's harvest time and that can only mean one thing... mega fresh hop brews! As the hops trickle in over the next few weeks we'll be posting some recipes including a dark IPA fermented with lager yeast, a couple of Belgian recipes, and, of course, more renditions of the classic Northwest hop bomb.

Don't forget to look out for these fun fall projects:

• honey - for mead (honey wine), of which there are many many types, can also be used in beer
  
• cider - straight up or fermented, use a clean ale yeast and give it lots of staged nutrient additions to ward off sulfur
  
• grapes - for wine of course! check out local vineyards to source fruit, look for a Brix of at least 24
• wild berries - you can ferment almost anything, just treat them like wine grapes
• pickles - late in the season, but good cukes are still available
• pickled peppers/garlic/etc - the name says it all, pickle whatever you can find