{"id":44,"date":"2026-08-13T07:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wp-templatekit.codeinsolution.com\/maltvik\/a-year-of-growing-our-own-hops-honestly-assessed\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:41:14","slug":"a-year-of-growing-our-own-hops-honestly-assessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wp-templatekit.codeinsolution.com\/maltvik\/a-year-of-growing-our-own-hops-honestly-assessed\/","title":{"rendered":"A year of growing our own hops, honestly assessed"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"44\" class=\"elementor elementor-44\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5654f642 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5654f642\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div 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data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wp-templatekit.codeinsolution.com\/maltvik\/\">Home<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c82cc27 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c82cc27\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\/<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c7e5b5c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7c7e5b5c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wp-templatekit.codeinsolution.com\/maltvik\/blog\/\">Journal<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div 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accounting of what came of it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5de3fbcb elementor-post-meta-divider-text elementor-widget elementor-widget-gum_post_meta\" data-id=\"5de3fbcb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"gum_post_meta.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"posts-meta\"><li class=\"list-meta\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"\"><\/i><span class=\"meta-text\">Ingredients<\/span><\/li><li class=\"meta-divider\"><span>\u00b7<\/span><\/li><li class=\"list-meta\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"\"><\/i><span class=\"meta-text\">August 13, 2026<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-439da16e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"439da16e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We put in twenty rhizomes along the south wall in spring, mostly to see what would happen. A year on, here is the yield, the cost, and whether we would do it again.<\/p><h2>The yield<\/h2><p>Eleven kilos wet, which dried down to just under two. That is one dry-hop for a single batch, from a full year of a wall we could have used for anything else. Commercially it is nothing.<\/p><h2>The work<\/h2><p>Training the bines in May took two afternoons. Watering through a dry July took ten minutes a day that somebody had to remember. Picking took four people most of a Sunday, and the drying rack lived in the office for a fortnight.<\/p><h2>Would we do it again<\/h2><p>Yes, but not for the beer. The plants are the first thing anyone asks about on a tour, and the batch we made with them sold out in four days because people had watched them grow. That turned out to be worth more than the hops.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d50d1f4 e-flex e-con-full e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d50d1f4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13ab3a58 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"13ab3a58\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Written by<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5cc0318 elementor-widget elementor-widget-gum_post_meta\" data-id=\"5cc0318\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"gum_post_meta.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"posts-meta\"><li 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