- Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:29 pm
#172729
For many years I have been wanting to start my garden. In this garden I won't be growing your normal produce and herbs. Rather, it is filled with a tall vine that's flowers are used in one of my favorite recipes, BEER!
Hops or Humulus lupulus are found as the bittering ingredient as well as a preservative in beer. Different strains of hops provide different characteristics. Some hops are better for the flavor, while others are better for the aroma. A brewer will add their hops in at different times of the brew to bring out different aspects of the flavor or character of the beer.
This year I started my garden. I went down the street to our local hop garden (Niwot Hops) here in Boulder County. A great guy by the name of Will helped me to select my plants. 2 Crystal hops, good for aroma. 2 Chinooks, great for flavor. And a Cascade that I had to grow from a rhizome. I have since added a second year Cascade to the garden as well.
The cool thing about hops is that they don't grow from seed. They grow from rhizomes. It's basically a root that you let grow every year. First year hops won't yield as much as a second year. A producing garden will have 3rd and even 4th year or even older hops twisting up their trellis.
Here's some pictures of my garden.
This is what they looked like when I started the garden earlier in the summer.
Hops or Humulus lupulus are found as the bittering ingredient as well as a preservative in beer. Different strains of hops provide different characteristics. Some hops are better for the flavor, while others are better for the aroma. A brewer will add their hops in at different times of the brew to bring out different aspects of the flavor or character of the beer.
This year I started my garden. I went down the street to our local hop garden (Niwot Hops) here in Boulder County. A great guy by the name of Will helped me to select my plants. 2 Crystal hops, good for aroma. 2 Chinooks, great for flavor. And a Cascade that I had to grow from a rhizome. I have since added a second year Cascade to the garden as well.
The cool thing about hops is that they don't grow from seed. They grow from rhizomes. It's basically a root that you let grow every year. First year hops won't yield as much as a second year. A producing garden will have 3rd and even 4th year or even older hops twisting up their trellis.
Here's some pictures of my garden.
This is what they looked like when I started the garden earlier in the summer.
