Local Hop Heads

Local Hop Head meeting next Thursday, May 5th at 6pm in the Lewis & Clark Taproom! Cascade rhizomes for sale for $3 (our cost). Bring your questions and comments and enjoy a beer with other Hop Heads! John and Christian will be our hosts!

Guest Post – Growing Hops for Self-Sufficiency in Brewing | The Self-Sufficient Gardener For many people homebrewing is a step along the path to self-sufficiency. Homebrewing provides the opportunity not only to produce a useful and enjoyable alcoholic beverage, but also to decrease your reliance on outside inputs and increase your self-sufficiency. Water, Yeast, Malt and Hops are the

Here's a pretty cool article (with accompanying video) on one family's hop farm in Washington. The harvest is so huge that it blows my mind.

http://www.americasheartland.org/episodes/episode_422/hops_crops.htm #

America's Heartland - Episode 422 - Hops Crops Hops are one of America's must unusual crops, but critical in the making of beer. Paul Ryan gets the lowdown on hops and beer in Washington State.