Gardening basics: Dig up hops plants now for home brewing later. Updated: Feb. 08, 2014, 11:00 a.m. ... Depending on the variety, hops typically fully mature by the third season.

Hops are the key ingredient that turn beer into beer. If you want to be an expert, here's what you need to know.Hops have fueled the modern beer renaissance. After Prohibition all but destroyed the ...

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One or two plants are plenty for backyard cultivation, says an Oregon State University expert. ... Depending on the variety, hops typically fully mature by the third growing season.

For the past four years, Robinson and his research team have experimented with growing about 15 different hop varieties. They’ve learned that hops can grow quite well in the desert.

Hops are flowering plants, also called angiosperms, and can reproduce both sexually and asexually. In breeding programs, scientists cross hop varieties to get desirable traits. But in the field ...

Whether your pint of choice was brewed down the street or thousands of miles away, there is a high chance its hops were ...

Spring is the best time to plant hop plants. ... Plants of the same variety can be planted about 3 feet apart. If planting more than one variety, keep about 6 feet between varieties.

The hops plants are perennial, which means that they grow back each spring. The fields remain planted for five to eight years, depending on the need for that particular hop variety in the marketplace.

Because the essential ingredient of hops thrives in moderate climates such as the Pacific Northwest, our steamy southern state can't grow these little plants successfully — guaranteeing that ...

On those plants, there will be fewer hops to harvest. In an effort to make irrigation systems more accessible to farmers, the Bavarian government has pledged a total of 40 million euros to build ...

Hops are the key ingredient that turn beer into beer. If you want to be an expert, here's what you need to know. Hops have fueled the modern beer renaissance. After Prohibition all but destroyed ...