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The Hop Adventure Chapter 2: North Vancouver, 2017

The Hop Adventure Chapter 2: North Vancouver, 2017

by David Aiken | Jul 8, 2020 | Checkerhead Brewing History, Ingredients

Not content with the eight hop plants I put in the ground in 2016, I decided to put in what I called Phase 2 of hop production in during 2017. I acquired a bunch of plywood from a job site close to where we lived which allowed me to build six boxes for the new area to...
The Hop Adventure – Chapter 1: North Vancouver, 2016

The Hop Adventure – Chapter 1: North Vancouver, 2016

by David Aiken | Jul 1, 2020 | Checkerhead Brewing History, Ingredients

If you adhere to the Reinheitsgebot, or German Purity Law of 1516, (which I don’t btw) then beer can only be made from four ingredients, malt, yeast, water and hops. This is the first chapter of my journey with the last of those ingredients, hops.  I brewed my...

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