Community Conversations: All About Hops
Stephanie Kelley The Hops Presentation was part of the Community Conversations Initiative. Francine St Amand invited three guests who work with hops to share their knowledge and expertise at this workshop. We got entertaining and interesting information from Nick Southan, Joe Gee and Mitch Biggar. These guys are passionate...
Hops….A Multi-Purpose Plant!
Hops are not just for beer. They make a beautiful and hardy ornamental plant for your garden, and the plant has a long history of use as medicinal herb as well as a beer ingredient by many different cultures. Hops are a vigorous, climbing perennial plant that is...
HOPS: Opportunity For An Aleing Economy?
By Francine St.Amand HOPS is one of those niche agricultural crops that is showing up more and more in NB’s rural landscape. When Joe Gee started up a vineyard on his farm in Carlingford last year, I realized that HOPS cultivation was something I wanted to learn more about....
How to Taste Beer
All About The Beer with Mitch Biggar Here are some simple ways to enhance your beer loving palate. This will enable you to become a better taster and in turn wow and amaze your friends with your beer geek knowledge. Hops Defined Hops are the flowers of the Humulus...