If you enjoy brewing beer and gardening, you are the perfect candidate for growing your own hops.
Hops are a hardy perennial, and once established, they can be harvested for many years.
As a homebrewer, you can benefit from the economic savings and increased quality control over your hops. Also, the hops' flavor and aroma are slightly affected by the local microclimate, so yours will have a unique signature. These features allow you more freedom of expression to design and brew your own excellent beer. These cone-shaped flowers contain small lupulin glands, which in turn contain the acids, resins and essential oils we brewers use to impart the bittering, flavoring and aromatic qualities to our beer. Thus, our primary goal as hop growers is to harvest the hop cones, dry them and quickly get them into the freezer to retain peak freshness.