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

by Joe Fisher (Author), Dennis Fisher (Author) "HOMEBREWERS today can buy most of what they need in homebrew supply stores, and this is a great convenience for all concerned..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review
"The Homebrewer's Garden is a natural marriage of two great hobbies..." -- Craig Bystrynski, Editor of Brew Your Own magazine

"The Homebrewer's Garden, is quite a timely book. Even if you are not a beer drinker (I'm not...), when you read recipes like those for "Mumm" and "Black Ale," made using herbs other than hops, or "Chili Beer" using hot Thai peppers, you may be itching to try brewing, if only to use as unique gifts." -- The Herbal Connection, Winter 1999

From the Back Cover
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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580170102
• ISBN-13: 978-1580170109
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,244 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Opens new dimensions in brewing, November 7, 2001

By	P S. Kania (Alaska) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Fisher brothers have done home brewer's a great service with this book. As a life long brewer and author of The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible I give them my highest compliments and thanks for their research into ancient herbal brewing and their presentation of their material without a lot of technical jargon.

Wether you're a complete novice or a veteran brewer there's a lot to learn here from almost forgotten techniques and ingredients to growing and malting your own grains.

Well done

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT!, April 16, 2001

By A Customer

Great book for the beginner. Even if you have never planted a simple garden, you cannot go wrong with this book. Very timely and explanatory - covers a range of subjects, including where to order hops, trelis construction, diseases, soil nutrients, and drying/using. Also includes techniques to grow herbs to use in brewing. A must read.

37 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book if you want to learn how to grow your own hop, January 18, 1999

By A Customer

I bought this book to learn how to grow my own hops. It was very clear on different techniques and also has addresses of where to get some starter plants.