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The Hop Grower's Handbook Author: Laura Ten Eyck

ISBN: 9781603585552 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 320 Published: 30 October 2015 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 20.4 x 1.5 Description:

With information on siting, planting, tending, harvesting, processing, and brewing

It's hard to think about beer these days without thinking about hops.

The runaway craft beer market's convergence with the ever-expanding local foods movement is helping to spur a local-hops renaissance. The demand from craft brewers for local ingredients to make beer-such as hops and barley-is robust and growing. That's good news for farmers looking to diversify, but the catch is that hops have not been grown commercially in the eastern United States for nearly a century.

Today, farmers from Maine to North Carolina are working hard to respond to the craft brewers' desperate call for locally grown hops. But questions arise: How best to create hop yards-virtual forests of 18-foot poles that can be expensive to build? How to select hop varieties, and plant and tend the bines, which often take up to three years to reach full production? How to best pick, process, and price them for market? And, how best to manage the fungal diseases and insects that wiped out the eastern hop industry one hundred years ago, and which are thr...

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