The Homebrewer's Garden: How to Easily Grow, Prepare, and Use Your Own Hops, Malts, Brewing Herbs...

The Homebrewer's Garden: How to Easily Grow, Prepare, and Use Your Own Hops, Malts, Brewing Herbs | Joe Fisher, Dennis Fisher | a book straight to the point

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	The Homebrewer's Garden: How to Easily Grow, Prepare, and Use Your Own Hops, Malts, Brewing Herbs Joe Fisher, Dennis Fisher Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Grow Your Own...Brew Your Own! If you have a backyard, or even a sun-facing porch, you can greatly enhance the flavor, aroma, and uniqueness of your homebrew by growing your own hops, brewing herbs, and malt grains. Easy instructions will help you put the "home" into your homebrew from setting up your first hop trellis, to malting grain at home, to brewing recipes specially formulated for homegrown ingredients. When you grow your own organic ingredients, you can be sure they are the freshest and purest available. "The Homebrewer's Garden is a natural marriage of two great hobbies..." (Craig Bystrynski, Editor of Brew Your Own magazine)

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Clear and Inspiring How-To

I bought this book looking for a guide to grow hops... It is certainly that, and more. It covers varieties and where they grow, how to treat the soil, where to plant, what how to build an effective trellis etc... AND it covers how to dry the fresh hops in preparation for use in a brew... how to build an oast (which is the drying structure)... And it does all of this in a very approachable way.

Bonus for me - was that it covers the same for the cultivation, harvest, and treatment (malting and drying) of barley ... And has a nice run-down of brewing herbs and their uses (how much of what herb to use in the brew - and when to add it)...

Just noticed - the cover says:

How to easily grow prepare, and use your own Hops, Malts, and Brewing Herbs

yeah ... that's about right. ;)
Inspiring.

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a book straight to the point

I bought this book for the Hop part I am a home brewer and the Hop shortage worried me, I bought a house last summer, and I have a spot that I can use for growing hops, I bought this book and others, this one has the layout well wrote, it is a clear cut information book, I have no gardening experience, and this book helped me in setting up my hops, and maintain then they are about a foot long now and healthy, the other parts of the book grain, and herb is also nice , it makes me want to grow my herb and grain... this book is the only one you need to grow hops....and I sure other product in it.

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Good Stuff

Great book. Lots of useful info. Seller got it to me in a quick mannor and in great condition.

Lots of great information in this detailed book

If you have ever considered growing hops, barely, or herbs this is a wealth of information. The book also contains 29 recipes that call for some of these exotic and historical ingredients. Very useful if you want to brew beer without hops or brew in styles from centuries ago.

I feel confident setting up my hop yard based on the information contained here. Contains details on everything about growing hops, from planting, stringing, watering, feeding, eliminating pests, and treating disease, to harvesting and drying. In terms of growing your own grains, you will need a lot of space and time. This book also covers how to malt, which is a detailed and time intensive process.

Topics unique to this book.

* Profile of 40 herbs used in historical brewing processes: (Alecost, Anise Hyssop, Basil, Bee Balm, Betony, Birch, Blackberry, Blessed Thistle, Borage, Chamomile, Clary Sage, Coriander, Dandelion, Elder, Elecampane, Gentian, Ginger, Ginseng, Greek Oregano, Heather, Horehound, Hyssop, Juniper, Lavender, Lemon Balm, Licorice, Milk Thistle, Mint, Nasturtium, Nettles, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Rose Hips, Rosemary, Sage, Savory, Spruce, Sweet Woodruff, Thyme, Valerian, Wintergreen, Yarrow)
* 29 Recipes containing specialty herbs, including: (Dandelion bitter, Quinoa Bitter, Chica De Jora, Chili Beer, Rhubarb Ale, Gingered Ale, Gotlandsdrika, Pumpkin Ale, Oregano Pale, Sorghum Ale)
* Growing and malting your own grain

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Rounded Garden

This book did not have as much in depth information about hops as I had wished for, but, it did have lots of other information that a brewer would appreciate and use. The discription of different herbs and there uses would be helpful to all, but the most knowledgible brewers.

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