Even if you don't make your own beer, they still make a nice decorative vine and smell good. I just planted these a little over a week ago, and they are shooting up like weeds. This is the cascade variety, I stuck my mail key in the dirt for reference. I have a Mt. Hood variety but they aren't nearly as vigorous.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/clarkbar04/hops042208.jpg

I'd like to see photos of anybody else's, if there are! Still need to figure out how I'm going to configure them once I get to that point.

Once I move into the new place, I'm planning to start my own brewing and growing my own hops. I don't think the college apartments would appreciate me having a brewery. :D

Off topic, but I snagged a plant from the Earth Day thing at work, thinking I'd give it to my girlfriend. I'm sort of high miles, so apparently the lads at work felt me and girlfriend weren't possible.

Just cause I'm old, doesn't mean I can't offer the old girl a plant...

Once I move into the new place, I'm planning to start my own brewing and growing my own hops. I don't think the college apartments would appreciate me having a brewery. :D

It would be impossible to hide the smell, but if you can cook it at somebody else's house, you can ferment it at your pad.

"growing hops"...yeah, right...;)

It would be impossible to hide the smell, but if you can cook it at somebody else's house, you can ferment it at your pad.
Understood. It's not exclusively defined on the contract no brewing. But um... Other factors prevent me.. ;)

"fermenting" is not the same as "brewing". ;)

Bill - I can't wait to have all my neighbors think I'm growing weed!

Hops eh?
yeah thats what I'll tell the neighbors.......

I've got a bag of rhizomes in the fridge. Soon as I get back to town I've got some chinook, magnum, nugget, and spalt that will be planted.

Jeremy,

your first year just run them up a 6 ft pole. the first growing season is more about developing a root base. next year you can use some strong rope and run it up the side of your house/garage/shed and let a vine grow up each piece of rope.

You planning to harvest the hops, or are they just something for the garden?

Hops are huge money right now and it takes very little land to grow but they do require some set up to maximize their growth. There is some real money here if someone were to grow them commercially.

"growing hops"...yeah, right...;)

He IS from Oregon.;)

"fermenting" is not the same as "brewing".
Mix up of terms, honest :D
It would be impossible to hide the smell, but if you can cook it at somebody else's house, you can ferment it at your pad.
One word. >Age<. ;)

Joe, yes I am planning on using them for my own concoctions! Plus the wife thinks they are cool. It's always nice to have a win-win situation every once in a while.

I know the hop prices are way up now that the surplus they had for years is chewed up and so many acres taken out of hops during that time. I think it would be a great opportunity, and it would be hard to get much more sunlight than we get here.

Dave, shouldn't you be tearing your car back apart again? ;)