Editorial Reviews

Book Description:
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. “The Homebrewer’s Garden is a natural marriage of two great hobbies…” (Craig Bystrynski, Editor of Brew Your Own magazine)

Customer Reviews

Clear and Inspiring How-To by jackifus
I bought this book looking for a guide to grow hops… It is certainly that, and more. It covers varieties and where they grow, how to treat the soil, where to plant, what how to build an effective trellis etc… AND it covers how to dry the fresh hops in preparation for use in a brew… how to build an oast (which is the drying structure)… And it does all of this in a very approachable way.

Bonus for me - was that it covers the same for the cultivation, harvest, and treatment (malting and drying) of barley … And has a nice run-down of brewing herbs and their uses (how much of what herb to use in the brew - and when to add it)…

Just noticed - the cover says:

How to easily grow prepare, and use your own Hops, Malts, and Brewing Herbs

yeah … that’s about right.
Inspiring.

HOMEBREWERS GARDEN by Robert A. German
INFORMATIVE BOOK A GREAT STARTER BOOK GIVES THE BASICS OF ALL BREWING HERBS AND GRAINS INCLUDING HOPS RECCOMEND READING

HMMMMMM by J. Wisdom
I thought this book would give me resources to purchasing seeds to grow. It just tells you how to grow them. If you are a gardener you dont need this book.

Great info on herbs by Bryan Peretto
The first section on growing hops is decent, but it’s nothing you can’t find online.

But the section on herbs is great. Not only does it give a list of brewing herbs but, more importantly, how much to use and how. I’ve researched gruits and know what types of herbs were used, but I never knew how much to add.

There’s also a section on grain. While I’d like to grow some grain, I’m not keen on malting. I may stick with unmalted wheat as that seems the easiest. Rye and Oats would have been nice, but they strongly advise against malting those items.

Overall, a good book- mainly if you have the land and time to grow your own ingredients. With the large amounts and quantities I brew, it doesn’t make sense for me to go this route. Especially when I can get grain delivered for about 30 cents a pound.

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