[THC] hops dryer

[L. A. Swihart]

John Blichmann made a nifty little hops dryer some years ago, and I'm 
using it again right now.  It's not real fast, but I don't think there's 
a way to dry hops real fast.  John has used it once or twice but he has 
also lent it out quite a bit.

It can dry about 2 lb of fresh hops at a time, and it takes something 
like 36 hours the way I do it, slowly with very little heat.

Anybody else want to borrow it?  You might well observe that it's not 
actually mine to lend, but I am suggesting that John might be happy to 
say yes to another interested person.  And he's reading these messages I 
think.

And what we really need is for somebody to scale that thing up a little, 
make one that dries about 10 lbs of hops at a time.  It's a wonderfully 
simple design and I bet it would scale up to that capacity pretty easily. 

Linda