Pool Cottage Hops
For my birthday last year, number one son, Ben, bought me a range of hop plants. The idea being to grow our own hops for the Dizzy Pig brewing part of the Pool Cottage Smallholding adventure. We now have Cascade, Fuggles, Golding, Prima Donna and Northern Brewer hops, which if we could grow them successfully in North Shropshire, would allow us to brew many different styles of beer. After a bit of research we discovered that the hops can grow up to 23 ft high and ideally shoul