{"id":2024,"date":"2011-05-05T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beersmith.com\/blog\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2014-02-06T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:39:49","slug":"growing-hops-with-dave-wills-beersmith-podcast-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/growing-hops-with-dave-wills-beersmith-podcast-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Hops with Dave Wills &#8211; BeerSmith Podcast #15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"beersmith\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/growing-hops-with-dave-wills-beersmith-podcast-15\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This week my guest is Dave Wills of Freshops and we talk about how to grow your own hops in your garden. Dave is a long time brewer, hop grower and also microbrewer at the Oregon Trail Brewery and he provides some great advice on how you can start your own hop garden.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beersmith.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog-mic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1636\" title=\"blog-mic\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beersmith.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog-mic-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog-mic-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog-mic.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/beersmith\/BSHB-15-Growing-Hops.mp3\">Download the MP3 File <\/a>\u2013 Right Click and &#8220;Save As&#8221; to download this mp3 file<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/beersmith\/BSHB-15-Growing-Hops.mp3]\n<h3>Topics in This Week&#8217;s Episode (43:44)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This week&#8217;s guest is Dave Wills of <a href=\"http:\/\/freshops.com\">Freshops.com<\/a> (a hop and hop rhizome provider) as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/oregontrailbrewery.com\">Oregon Trail Brewery<\/a>. Dave has an extensive background in hop growing, home brewing and professional brewing.<\/li>\n<li>In the announcements, I cover my blog article containing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beersmith.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/beersmith-2-0-a-first-look\/\">first look at BeerSmith 2.0<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be working pretty hard on the BeerSmith 2.0 release the next month or two, so I apologize if the podcasts come a week or two late during the launch period.<\/li>\n<li>Dave talks a bit about his background in brewing and hops &#8211; including home brewing, fresh hops and his microbrewery.<\/li>\n<li>We talk about how hops are grown and processed for use by brewers, as well as modern hop storage (near freezing).<\/li>\n<li>Dave explains the ideal climate for growing hops, and how hops are grown from rhizomes and not from seeds.<\/li>\n<li>We walk through how to plant your hops the right way up.<\/li>\n<li>Dave explains why it takes two years to really get your hops going, and also talks about how to water and care for your hops.<\/li>\n<li>We talk about the importance of full sun (South side) and a good solid hop trellis.<\/li>\n<li>Dave walks us through harvesting, drying and packaging your hops as well as how to best store them and shares a few more tips on brewing with your own hops!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks again to Dave Wills of Freshops.com who was kind enough to appear on the show!<\/p>\n<h3>Thoughts on the Podcast?<\/h3>\n<p>Leave me a comment below or visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/beersmith.com\/forum\">discussion forum<\/a> to leave a comment in the podcast section there.<\/p>\n<h3>Subscribe to the Podcast<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Great News!<\/strong> We&#8217;ve been featured in the New and Notable podcasts on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/beersmith-home-brewing-blog\/id398500515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Subscribe on iTunes\" alt=\"Subscribe on iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/images\/web\/linkmaker\/badge_itunes-lrg.gif\" width=\"82\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are not using iTunes, you can subscribe using this feed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/BeersmithcomHomeBrewingBlog<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, don&#8217;t 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