The Homebrewer's Garden : How to Easily Grow, Prepare, and Use Your Own Hops, Malts, Brewing Herbs

Grow Your Own...Brew Your Own! If you have a backyard, or even a sun-facing porch, you can greatly enhance the flavor, aroma, and uniqueness of your homebrew by growing your own hops, brewing herbs, and malt grains. Easy instructions will help you put the "home" into your homebrew from setting up your first hop trellis, to malting grain at home, to brewing recipes specially formulated for homegrown ingredients. When you grow your own organic ingredients, you can be sure they are the freshest and purest available.

Brothers Joe and Dennis Fisher are the authors of Storey's Brewing Made Easy, Great Beer From Kits, and The Homebrewer's Garden.

Joe is a freelance illustrator who was the first place winner in the 1993 Common Ground Fair Competition Steam Beer Category, and has also toured the West Coast to sample micro-brewed beers.

Dennis is a freelance writer who has worked as an assistant tapster in Oxford, where he became acquainted with real beer. He has written many articles for The New England Coastal News, a bi-monthly newspaper on maritime subjects.

Committed kit brewers with a history of success, the brothers are members of the American Homebrewer's Association, Seed Savers Exchange, Flower & Herb Exchange, Maine Organic Farmers' and Gardeners' Association. They have written for Zymurgy magazine and live and brew in Winterport, Maine.

Grow a beer garden! Enhance the flavor, aroma, and personality of your homebrew by cultivating your own hops, herbs, and malt grains. With expert advice on choosing and maintaining the best plants for your needs, Joe Fisher and Dennis Fisher show you how to turn a small patch of backyard, or even a few window boxes, into a renewable brewing supply store. Discover the satisfaction that comes from brewing tasty beers using fresh homegrown ingredients. Offers advice on growing the ingredients for making beer, describes the most popular varieties of hops, and offers advice on soil preparation, insect pests, and harvesting