Home Brewing

This amber IPA is brewed with 100% Darbro Farms hops and fresh Midwest malt from: https://www.rootshootmalting.com/ it has a warm balanced taste that I’d challenge anyone to get from standard off the shelf ingredients. The recipe is posted below. Comments

Kettle Soured Pumpkin Ale

Kettle soured pumpkin ale is on tap at Darbro Farms. It is definitely unique! I opted to skip the traditional pumpkin pie spices and just let the sour pumpkin twang shine through. This beer was brewed with fresh dried Darbro

Fresh Columbus IPA

With the help of my expert brew assistant weighing hops, the fresh Columbus IPA is in the fermenter. Recipe: 11 lbs 2 Row Malt 4 lbs Vienna Malt 1 lb Carafoam 1 lb Aciduated Malt 1oz Magnum Hops 60min 1oz

Multihead Hops

This year we have been working to get a row of Neomexicana (Multihead) hops going. I was down picking hops and spotted some good cones over on the Multihead row. The smell of them was amazing. Strong lemon and

Crystal Hops Packaged

A batch of Crystal hops are dry, nitrogen packed and ready to go. They will go great in your Pale Ale recipe!

Columbus hops ready to brew!

The first small batch of Columbus hops have been dried and nitrogen bagged. Excited to taste some in a good IPA! This year we are also trying an oxygen scribing pack in

Chinook Hop Picking

The first batch of Chinook hops have been picked and are in the dryer. It was a pretty morning to pick hops. A little breeze and the heat hadn’t set in. Owen says he detects citrus notes in this batch

Strange hop yard things!

Found something strange in the hop yard. A row of Columbus hops has produced both male and female flowers on the same plant. If you look close you can see the small clusters of male flowers (small berries) and the

Hops will soon be ready to pick!

Several hop varieties will soon be ready to pick. Columbus hops look to be the first to get ripe cones. Time to make sure we are ready to dry and the nitrogen bagger is ready to go.

Uncouth Native North American Hops

The Multihead Neomexicana hops are a little uncouth and not as cultured as their European cousins. I think they might fit right in here at http://www.darbrofarms.com We are working to get a good row going. Native to the Southwest U.S.

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