The Hop Grower's Handbook: The Essential Guide for Sustainable, Small-Scale Production for Home and Market
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1603585559 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has worked in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York’s Capital Region selling high-end imported and domestic beers, as well as in specialty stores in the Boston area offering a wide selection of craft beer. Dietrich lives on the Helderberg Hop Farm in Altamont, New York.. Gehring grew up working on his grandparents&rsquo
The local beer and brewery scene is heating up fast, and demand for local ingredients will continue to grow. So, welcome to The Hop Grower’s Handbookthe only book covering practical hops production in the region. Now I can point people to this well-thought-out and informative publication. And while craft brewers helped launch the local food movement over three decades ago, the local production of brewing ingredients has lagged behind. The Hop Grower’s Handbook, packed with research and practical advice, is an invaluable tool for reuniting regional brewers with regional growers. The
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Ten Eyck and Gehring, however, focus on farming hops sustainably. The overwhelming majority of books and resources devoted to hop production currently available are geared toward the Pacific Northwest’s large-scale commercial growers, who use synthetic pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and fertilizers and deal with regionally specific climate, soils, weeds, and insect populations. The book also provides readers with detailed information on: • Selecting, preparing, and designing a hop yard site, including irrigation; • Tending to the hops, with details on best practices to manage weeds, insects, and diseases; and, • Harvesting, drying, analyzing, processing, and pricing hops for market. The demand from craft brewers for local ingredients to make beersuch as hops and barleyis 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. With information on siting, planting, tending, harvesting, processing, and brewingIt’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 l