And if you love brewing with hops, or just like drinking beer, you should know the plants are easy to grow in your backyard. The plants, perennials, leaf out every spring and usually put out ...

Hops grow at Oregon State University's hop yard in Corvallis. (Lynn Ketchum) With craft beer and home brewing becoming more popular, interest is fermenting among gardeners in backyard hops. Oregon ...

And if you love brewing with hops, or just like drinking beer, you should know the plants are easy to grow in your backyard. Many homebrewers across Southern California have plants of their own.

Pure Mitten Hops' plants won't grow and bear flowers for making beer until the 22,000 ropes are tied to trellises in their 11-acre hop yard. Pure Mitten Hops' plants won't ... Back To Main Menu Close.

The plants are perennial, producing vines that can grow up to 25 feet each year, so you'll need to plan your garden carefully. Make sure you can provide a sturdy trellis to support the vines in a ...

You don’t need a garden to succeed as a home-brewer, but growing your own ingredients is a flavorful step up. Much of the creativity involved in crafting a custom-made beer starts with the ...

Hops are the flowers of the hop plant, and are used primarily as a flavoring and stability agent in beer. The hops plants are perennial, which means that they grow back each spring.

The hop plant (Humulus lupulus), which gives flavor and aroma to beer, is in the same plant family as cannabis, but unlike cannabis, it has no psychotropic effect.

History: Hops have been used in European beer making at least since 1000 A.D. and have been cultivated as a medicinal plant in Germany since about 700 A.D. Throughout western Europe, villagers ...