This year’s hop harvest may have seemed a lot of fiddly work at the time and a hot slog on a sunny September weekend, but it proved well worth it in the end. And at an average price to homebrewers of around a fiver per 100g for new crop hops this year, ‘growing yer own’ [...]
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Hop Growing 2009
Posted in Brewing ingredients, tagged Boadicea, Bramling Cross, Fuggles, garden, hedgerow, hop growing, hops, Sarah, WGV, wild hops on 19 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, Spring has definitely sprung and the purple budded hop bines in the Boxshed garden have braved the morning frosts, pushed themselves through the ground and started their mad journey towards the end of the fence. We only grow three varieties of hops ourselves right now, and didn’t get around to planting any more rhyzomes [...]
Brewing ingredients: Homegrown hops
Posted in Brewing ingredients, tagged Boadicea, Bramling Cross, Fuggles, garden, growing, hedgerow, hops, plants, powdery mildew, rhyzomes, Susan, WGV on 13 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most satisfying parts of our last couple of brewdays has been the chance to use our own homegrown hops. We don’t have a large garden outside the Boxshed by any means, but we do have sufficient fencing to train a few hops, which although not particularly disease resistant, can thrive in the [...]
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