Growing Hops with Andrew Voss of Voss Farms

Show Transcript (A.I. driven it will have errors.) Colter Wilson: It’s April and about now all of the Homebrew shops around you, if they’re still open and selling things because of the coven 19 are probably starting to sell hop rhizomes. So today I’m talking to Andrew boss of boss farms here in Arvada, Colorado about how to grow hops in your backyard on Homebrew DIY. And welcome back to homebrewing DIY, the podcast that takes on the do it yourself aspect of homebrewing gadgets, contraptions and parts. This podcast covers it all on today’s show. We’re talking to Andrew Voss of boss farms in Arvada, Colorado. About his tips and tricks for growing hops at your house, using rhizomes that are available right now from your local Homebrew store. But first, I’d like to thank all of our patrons over a Patrion is because of you that this show can come to you for free week after week. Why don’t you head over to hope brewing? DIY is [email protected] forward slash homebrewing DIY. Once again, that’s . Patrion.com forward slash homebrewing DIY. Still have a couple of great specials going on. If you give it the $1 level for the first 20. Patrons at $1, you’re going to get access to our RSS feed and a homebrewing DIY sticker. That’s a $5 value, and if you give it the $5 level, we’re going to send you a nice thank you gift from scrubber. Duckies I have one of those left. So, uh, the next patron at $5 is going to get that. Another way that you can support the show is by heading over to . Pod, chaser.com or to Apple podcasts and writing us a review. Your feedback a helps us improve the show and also helps others find the show. So once again, that’s pod chaser.com or Apple podcasts in the last week in sport. The show is by heading over to our website, homebrewing diy.beer and using our sponsor links. Sign up for brew father or do your Homebrew shopping. Get adventures in homebrewing. Use those sponsor banners and it lets them know that we sent you. Your feedback is always appreciated. You can always send us feedback to [email protected] and send us an email, a note, feedback on the show, a question, anything you would love to read it on the air. So once again, that’s [email protected]. You can also follow us on social media. We’re on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Just look for the handle at homebrewing. DIY, all one word. Also, if you listened to last week’s show, I talked a bit about the SAP or the shelter in place, beer festival that’s happening on the 11th of April from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM just one more announcement that that is happening. It’s the shelter in place, beer festival. All of the proceeds from the ticket sales and t-shirts sales are going to go to help the employees of the craft beer industry here local in Colorado. And it’s a pretty simple to participate. Buy a ticket, hop on Twitter, Facebook throughout the hashtag and enjoy a Colorado beer from 12 to six on this Saturday. So go over to sip beer fest.com for more information and get your ticket today. All right, so now let’s jump into this week’s interview. We’re going to be talking to Andrew Voss of Voss farms here in Arvada, Colorado about how you take your rhizomes and turn them into beautiful succulent. Tasty hops. I’m sitting here with Andrew Voss of boss farms, a local hop farm here in Arvada, Colorado, and we’re going to talk about all things hops today. Welcome, Andrew. Andrew Voss: Hey, thanks for having me. Colter Wilson: Hey, thanks for being on the show. I think the best place for us to start right now would be, let’s get a bit into your whole brewing history and how you started a hop Andrew Voss: farm. Yeah. Homebrewing history started well after the Huff farm. Actually, I, uh, always been a beer drinker. Um, but, uh, I’ve always been more of a grower and a gardener, and I was living in downtown Denver for years. Trying to do as big a garden as I could. Uh, that’s when I finally had a chance to upgrade my home. And, uh, 2008 during the recession, prices were pretty good. So I found two acres in Arvada and, uh, wanted to do an Apple orchard. But after a big hailstorm, those Apple tree starts got all killed. So I planted hops. Uh ha. I planted them at the same time as the Apple trees. And after the hailstorm, they came back so much more vigorous than the Apple trees. I said, Hey, hop farm. Makes a lot of sense. Craft breweries were Virgin. Colter Wilson: Yeah. That’s a kind of a key time in the craft brewery time for Colorado as well in the mid two thousands. Right? Yeah. Andrew Voss: Yeah. It just made sense to, to grow the hops. I thought probably like a lot of people that consider having a hop farm that I would, uh, make money hand over fist, be able to quit my day job with it. But that wasn’t the case. And we can talk about that a little bit later, but. Let’s just say a, the home brewing started after the hop farm because so many brewers would come and help me with the hops and harvest time where they’d get rhizome

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