Growing Hops for beer.

[Dasyurus Maculatus]

Many white folks still brew their own beer, wine, whiskey and my Irish neighbors trade these goods for their own specialty poiteen.

Although my whiskey still is temporarily laid up; I still make Ale . What is the best type of Hop to flavor ale?. I grow Golden Hops and classic English dark green hops whose aromatic oil content varies with season and soil/weather. A wet summer always seems to be best for hops.

Advice anyone on 'the best hop' variety to grow in the smallholding?.
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[Gott]

I just got a couple of roots from a nursery. Cascade and Nugget. One is for bittering the flavor the other for aroma.



Many white folks still brew their own beer, wine, whiskey and my Irish neighbors trade these goods for their own specialty poiteen.

Although my whiskey still is temporarily laid up; I still make Ale . What is the best type of Hop to flavor ale?. I grow Golden Hops and classic English dark green hops whose aromatic oil content varies with season and soil/weather. A wet summer always seems to be best for hops.

Advice anyone on 'the best hop' variety to grow in the smallholding?.
:cool:

[einzelwesen]

Hops represent too lucrative a source of income to the government, and so it's illegal to grow these without a government license in Oz. Alas- I'd love to be able to grow everything for a fine beer* myself.

*: As opposed to a thoroughly awful grappa/brandy.

[Gott]

I make it out of kits, but may move up to real brewing. Don't think I'd want to grow the barley though, let alone sprout and dry and roast it. That sounds like stuff for experts. Hops though, sounds both easy and kinda nice to grow. Something like 18 feet growth in a year...must be almost able to watch it grow. And what can be more Deutsch than hops?

Is anything that is any good...legal in Oz? Fuch, the fuchin fuchers fuched.