Category: Brewery Garden

  • Brewing with Spruce Tips

    Brewing with Spruce Tips

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    Ben Farhner
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    Brewing with spruce tips is not new: trees have a long, entangled history with beer. Leaves, needles, bark, and roots have all been added to the boil kettle. Branches and needles have been used in the mash tun for filtering. Trunks have been hollowed out for lautering. And wood has been used for centuries to…

  • Brewing with Yarrow

    Brewing with Yarrow

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    Ben Farhner
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    Achillea millefolium, or yarrow, is a classic gruit herb that is prolific and easy to grow. It has been used medicinally throughout history. It’s most well known property is its ability to stanch wounds. Brewing with yarrow is easy and it provides a good foundation for an herbal ale. Foraging Yarrow Yarrow grows in a number…

  • The Hopyard 2016

    The Hopyard 2016

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    Ben Farhner
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    Last year, I purchased 3 hop rhizomes and planted them in containers, and the Underhill Hopyard was born. I used large Rubbermaid bins with holes drilled in the bottom as the containers, and built adjustable trellises for them based on an article in Brew Your Own magazine, which worked really well. I purchased Cascade, Willamette,…