Brew 22 - Plym Pale (Garden Grown Hop Pale Ale)
Brew 22 - Plym Pale (Garden Grown Hop Pale Ale) Brew Day: 23/09/2021 Bottle Day: 07/10/2021 Last spring (2020), I planted out some hop seeds that were a Christmas present, just to see what became of them. That summer gave no flowers and no harvest and the plant died back. The following spring, hop bines started to sprout again so I put the pot against a trellis and left it to grown. The bines grew fairly slowly but by the end of summer I had managed to train the bines to wrap around the fence and small flower like buds had begun to form. Interestingly, my Dad had taken a cutting the previous year and his hop plant had grown much stronger. Initially we thought his plant had flowered but it turned out that his flowers were in fact the male variant which wouldn't be useful in brewing. Not long after this, the flowers in my garden became cone like and before I knew it (around Late August/Early September) I had flowers that were ready to Harvest. I have little experience with hop growi