Brewing Up a Community Commercial Hops Webinars

Simple Earth Hops is proud to present the Brewing Up a Community Hops Webinars

• Get tickets @ http://hopsontap.eventbrite.com/
• View the Hops Webinars Schedule @ http://www.mattsweeny.com/hops-webinars/

Read the press release!

A MONTHLY EVENT on the
3rd SATURDAY OF MARCH-APRIL-MAY 

2 Hops Webinars per day on:

• Saturday - March 17
• Saturday - April 21
• Saturday - May 19

The cost for each webinar is $20 and each webinar is 2 hours long.

Commercial Hops Webinar Choices 

Morning Hops Webinar: [10am - 12pm CST]

Q&A, Marketing & Processing Commercial Hops Webinar / This Hops Webinar is dedicated to just answering your questions with a focus on marketing and processing hops.  

SOLD OUT!
Afternoon Hops Webinar: [2pm - 4pm CST]
Marketing & Processing Hops Webinar / Whether you are selling hops to your local brewmaster down the street or setting up a website to sell your hops online to homebrewers, you will want to know what do with your hops once they are done growing right? 

Late Night Hops Webinar: [9pm - 11pm CST]

Q&A, Hopyard Establishment & Sustainable Growing Webinar / This webinar is dedicated to answering your questions about how to setup a small scale commercial hopyard and how to use earth-friendly growing practices while still providing a profitable yield.  

You can also buy tickets for a Personal Hopyard Tour which exists to give us with time to answer your questions in person, share a beer together and walk around the hopyard to see the small scale commercial hopyard in Dodgeville, WI.

• Get tickets @ http://hopsontap.eventbrite.com/
• View the Hops Webinars Schedule @ http://www.mattsweeny.com/hops-webinars/

Place multiple ticket orders if you'de like to attend webinars on different days. The individual webinars are presented independant from each other. The tickets offered for the Brewing Up a Community Hops Webinars give you a 2 hour session to talk with Matt Sweeny, ask questions and hopefully learn some too. A requirement for attending the Hops Webinars is that you must have a beer in hand!

Have a question about this event?

• Ask Matt Sweeny directly at http://www.vcita.com/matt.sweeny
• Post your question on the Hops Webinars Facebook Event Page

Hops Webinar Marketing Partners

• Brookston Beer Bulletin
• Commercial Hops Webinar press release [Google Docs]
• Commercial Hops Webinars Press Release on PRLog.org
• madison.Craigslist.org
• Hops Webinars promo video
• Hops Webinars event on Linked In
• Fatty Matty Brewing blog

Wholesale Hop Rhizome Pre-ordering ends Jan. 15, 2012

You can now pre-order (wholesale quantities only) hop rhizomes for 2012 at http://hops.goodsie.com/

Pre-ordering ends Jan. 15, 2012. Don't wait, pre-order now! 

 As of Jan. 5, 2012, these hop rhizome varieties are available at http://hops.goodsie.com/ :

• Brewer's Gold
• Cascade
• Centennial
• Chinook
• Columbus
• Galena
• Nugget
• Mt. Hood
• Perle
• Sterling
• Willamette 

 As you make plans to grow hops at home (to brew with in your own beer), to grow hops on the farm or expand your current commercial hopyard), Simple Earth Hops is proud to offer a 2012 hop rhizome pre-ordering option for hops which may grow best in the Midwest.

As you make choices about which hops to by you can review our Hop Variety Profile spreadsheet available on Google Docs at http://goo.gl/Oa5Av

 ** These hop rhizomes ARE NOT necessarily certified Organic! **

Hop Rhizome Sources
Most of these varieties do not come directly from our hopyard in Wisconsin but rather, are sources from other local Midwest hopyards and other reliable local hop growers in the U.S.A.

Wholesale Rhizome Pricing
Minimum order is 100 hop rhizomes. We reserve the right to change prices based on supply and demand. 

Wholesale Hop Rhizome Limited Availability
Hop rhizome supplies are limited! You'll have a better chance to get your complete hop rhizomes order filled by pre-ordering early. First come first serve! Simple Earth Hops reserves the right to limit quantities on all varieties based on supply when you order. Varieties that are sold out will be refunded.

Shipping
Due to the quarantine on hops coming from outside the States of Washington and Idaho, we can't ship to those States. We also do not ship to Hawaii or out of the U.S. These rhizomes will ship days after being dug out of the ground and shipment will be in late March or some time in April.

Participate in a hops group webinar meeting

Would you like to participate in a hops group webinar meeting or individual hop webinar meeting?
Please email me at fattymattybrewing@gmail.com if you are interested in registering for an individual or group hop questions webinar meeting.

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Here's a heads up to everyone with all the really good questions about growing commercial hops and for all the folks sending emails about how to setup a commercial hopyard trellis using black locust poles. Thank you for the awesome opportunity to share quality local information to you.

- Matt Sweeny,

Wisconsin hops past seasons photos and links

Slower. Smaller. Local.

We did it. Hops were sold locally! Yeah!

With the 2010 and 2011 hopyard seasons complete and behind us, our Dodgeville, Wisconsin grown hop plants now lay dormant in the hopyard.

Thank you to all the past Simple Earth Hops event attendees for your help in the hopyard and for your contribution to our Brewing up a Community efforts. Special thanks also goes out to John Christiansen, Greenspirit Farm, the Wisconsin Hop Exchange, Weber Organic and the Brewery Creek Brewpub in addition to Northern Brewer, the gracious musicians, volunteers and local brewers who donated beer to our past seasons' hopyard events and Bob Bero of B-Hoppy Hop Candy co.

Below is a wrap-up of some of our most memorable hopyard/farm event moments from the past two season and a list of where you can follow Simple Earth Hops.

2010-11 Wisconsin Hop Photos

• 2011 Harvest Party
  
• 2011 Testing hop ripeness
• 2011 Midseason in the Hopyard 
• 2011,Hopyard Spring Training 
• 2010 Hop Harvest 
• 2010 Trellis setup 
• Press kit Pictures 
• 2010 Moving hop trellis poles 
• 2010 Hop trellis poles selection

Simple Earth Hops social media profile

• Simple Earth Hops on Facebook
• 2010 Hopyard establishment press release
• Simple Earth Hops Press Kit
• Layered mulch (lasagna gardening) instructions
• Madison Hop Examiner
• Follow us on Twitter @anotherdesign
• Hop sales from Simple Earth Hops
• Subscribe to our website

Wisconsin hops featured on MN Public Radio

On Septemeber 27, 2011, Matt Sweeny of Simple Earth Hops was interviewed by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl who is a Senior Editor at Minnesota Monthly. This interview was used as content in an article "Dining with Dara: Hops to make locavores happy" and broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio's "All Things Considered" on September 29. This well written article by Dara also includes an interview with Todd Haug, brewer at Surly Brewing Company of Brooklyn Center, MN. Here is a short clip from the Sept., 29 article from MNPR:

"I'm pushing for this whole industry to be different," Sweeny told me. He wants local producers to sell to local brewers, build relationships, and see themselves as partners to brewers, who in general are artisans or craftspeople and whop don't see themselves as run-of-the-mill widget makers.

Mulchfest, hop sales and surveys, oh my

2011 Mulchfest Beer Exchange
If you missed the fun at the Simple Earth Hops Harvest Brewfest or just didn't have enough time to really sit down and talk about growing hops, here is your chance. We are excited to offer just 12 tickets for the 2011 Hopyard Mulchfest Beer Exchange. Ask about on site overnight accommodations - I'll provide tasting glasses to use, dinner and working gloves and you bring your favorite local beer to share. Tickets for this 2nd annual networking opportunity are at http://mulchfest.eventbrite.com/

Short URL to register for tickets: http://hops.me/7da
Short URL to view this event on Facebook: http://hops.me/7d9

Two weeks of whole leaf hop sales
Now that all the hops have been dried, whole leaf hop orders are being accepted at http://hops.goodsie.com/ - these will be pelletized an no longer available as whole leaf hops in less than 2 weeks.

Short URL to order hop products: http://hops.me/6zn

Attendee and Staff Survey
(from the 2011 Simple Earth Harvest Brewfest)
We don't know everything about event planning (let alone horticulture or how to run a sustainable business). If you attended or volunteer at the Simple Earth Hops Harvest Brewfest, please give us some feedback using this survey platform to help narrow marketing campaigns and focus our community efforts.

Short URL for the event survey: http://hops.me/7d4
This questionnaire will not give you "survey burnout" and will take you less than a few minutes to fill out.

Subscribe via Email
You can now subscribe to updates about hop sales, hopyard events and other website posts via Feedburner, this service will send you an email every time we update the website. Subscribe to our website updates via email now!

Short URL to subscribe for email updates: http://hops.me/7d8

Photos from the Simple Earth Hops Harvest Brewfest
Below is a link to some of the photos taken at this year's Harvest Brewfest. You can also view and comment on the photos on Picasa.

Short URL for Harvest Brewfest Pics on Picasa: http://hops.me/7db