Epic Gardening: This plant makes beer taste like beer…
I traveled up to Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, CA to see how they’re growing ALL of the ingredients for a home-brewed beer, starting with the hops plant.
And boy can they get invasive! I have two hops plants, one a Cascadia and one a golden, and the Cascadia smells absolutely horrid. It actually grew into the branches of a tree in the neighbor's yard this year, and I overheard one of them complaining about the "weed armpits" smell one day. They were blaming this really smelly guy who walks by every morning, who you can smell from about two blocks away, and I was too embarrassed to tell them what it actually was😔
When i saw a field of hops on holiday in Limburg they actually weren't mounted. I was kinda surprised by that, but considering they were growing on hills in löss soil, i guess it isn't really needed to mount them
Not true! Beer used to not have hops. Beer is beer with or without hops. The invention of IPA beer is why we have hops. It was put in beer as a preservative for British soldiers in India because beer traveling from home to India had a rough time with all the climate conditions upon the long travel. British soldiers got used to it & preferred it when they got home hence the invention of IPA or Indian Pale Ale & how we discovered hops as a preservative. Beer is beer because of the fermentable sugars in grain. Hops r an innovative bonus lol. Shame on you Eric for spreading disinfo…
I have one in the garden, it's super fun to grow from a rhyzome. If you don't want it to get tall you just keep trimming it back. I had friends who grew theirs on a 2 story house in the city – they just mounted a strong wheel/pulley to a stud by a window (and waterproofed the connection point), so they could drop the plant (growing around a rope) onto their deck at the end of the season to harvest. I did something similar with a pulley in a tall tree in my backyard.
I grow Hops in NH for homebrewing. It's super easy if you're growing from a rhizome cutting because it's such a hardy plant. It likes lots of water, good drainage and full sun. Make sure you're living in an area that gets cold enough for the plant to overwinter, or it will only produce hop cones once in its life.
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We have a hop plant in the garden, just because it's beautiful and it smells great
I passed a hop farm this summer and had no idea what it was, thanks to you I do now! I even took a vid of it cause I wanted to find out!
I used to live near an Anheuser-Busch factory. And oh my word it smells amazing every day.
ROWS, not rose… why have subtitles if they're nonsense? Lol
I lived and played in the acres of beautiful hop fields in Elk Grove, California
And boy can they get invasive! I have two hops plants, one a Cascadia and one a golden, and the Cascadia smells absolutely horrid. It actually grew into the branches of a tree in the neighbor's yard this year, and I overheard one of them complaining about the "weed armpits" smell one day. They were blaming this really smelly guy who walks by every morning, who you can smell from about two blocks away, and I was too embarrassed to tell them what it actually was😔
When i saw a field of hops on holiday in Limburg they actually weren't mounted. I was kinda surprised by that, but considering they were growing on hills in löss soil, i guess it isn't really needed to mount them
Hops also have a pretty interesting cousin plant that also happens to make some really yummy green stuff
Thanks for the video Kevin, when can you start growing hops from seed? I'm in zone 9a
The most related plant to cannabis by the way.
Not true! Beer used to not have hops. Beer is beer with or without hops.
The invention of IPA beer is why we have hops. It was put in beer as a preservative for British soldiers in India because beer traveling from home to India had a rough time with all the climate conditions upon the long travel. British soldiers got used to it & preferred it when they got home hence the invention of IPA or Indian Pale Ale & how we discovered hops as a preservative. Beer is beer because of the fermentable sugars in grain. Hops r an innovative bonus lol.
Shame on you Eric for spreading disinfo…
jk I no your name is Kevin
Been growing my own hops for years! Its perfect for homebrewing
I aim for sour and funky beers to avoid the hops taste 😅
I used to think I just hated beer but it turns out I just hate the taste of hops 😊
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I have one in the garden, it's super fun to grow from a rhyzome. If you don't want it to get tall you just keep trimming it back. I had friends who grew theirs on a 2 story house in the city – they just mounted a strong wheel/pulley to a stud by a window (and waterproofed the connection point), so they could drop the plant (growing around a rope) onto their deck at the end of the season to harvest. I did something similar with a pulley in a tall tree in my backyard.
I grow Hops in NH for homebrewing. It's super easy if you're growing from a rhizome cutting because it's such a hardy plant. It likes lots of water, good drainage and full sun. Make sure you're living in an area that gets cold enough for the plant to overwinter, or it will only produce hop cones once in its life.
The wires anchoring the pole are usually called guy-wires.