Brazilian Ice Wine?

Brazilian Ice Wine?

For the first time, well the first time in modern history, the temperature dropped low enough in Brazil to create ice wine.  Temperatures in Santa Catarina, Brazil reached -7.5 C (18.5 F).  Ice wine requires a hard freeze of -7 C to -8 C.  The Pericó Winery claims to...
Hops gone wild

Hops gone wild

Like many other homebrewers, I planted a ton of hops around my house in hopes to ease the hop crisis.  The first year, 2007, I planted several hop varieties in planters.  These died quicker than fresh yeast poured into boiling wort.  The following year I planted...