Beer and gardening.

We just got the annual spring release of local favorite Earth Thirst.

 

SARA just released a dark lager called “flowers at dusk”

 

Ahh, I thought this thread was gonna be different!! I am a gardener and beer nerd, hopefully starting to plant in the next month or so.

My first time planting raised beds was blessed by Proclamation's Amphibian Days. That was in 2019. Maybe this thread will end up becoming my new repository for beer-related planting posts...

 

I’ve found my gardening niche with growing lots of tomato plants and making sauce (freeze it in bags and use it for next 12mo. for pasta dishes and such). Way better sauce than anything store bought in a jar that I’ve ever had. Other veggies I’ve found too labor intensive for me or I just haven’t had alot of success with (exception radishes but they are so cheap from the store anyway). I do have an asparagus garden I started 2 years ago so I think 2023 I’ll be ready to harvest some of that. We’ll see how that turns out. Oh beer conversation? I think any Grizette or Farmhouse ale/saison is perfect after a spring day doing some gardening and getting dirty.

 

Would "Bud" be the obvious answer??

 

7 Hop 7 Grain

Cool Earth Lager

 

Here is an easy one for you if you haven't tried...Sprinkle lettuce seed in pot or bed, dust with soil, keep soil wet and covered till they germinate, water regularly. You'll have an endless source of lettuce till they bolt and go bitter when it gets hot. You'll feel the same way you do about your fresh tomato sauce

 

Earth Rider (from Superior, WI)
Fiddlehead (from Shelburne, VT)

 

Based on my experience, just about anything from Wicked Weed.

 

How about anything from Locust Lane Brewing here in Malvern, PA? What goes better with gardening than a couple locusts?

 

*Vulgar Display of Flower, Photon (Equilibrium)
*Cultivate, Into The Forest,Dream Forest, Lost Forest ,Wander The Forest , Between Two Ferns, Canopy, Color Trees, Crisp Trees, Mashing Pumpkins ,Slightly Fuzzy(Berliner Weisse series) Trippy Tree (a sour IPA series) , Tropical Trees, Raspberry Jammin', Solar Apex (Beer Tree)
[Sense a theme here^?]
*Sip of Sunshine, Triple Sunshine (Lawson's)
*Crazy Daizy, Crazy Daisy Went Wild, Don't Miss A Beet [in the fridge right now. ] , Carrot Bucket, Squash Bucket, Rhub Hollar, Barn Burner, Cuke Skywalker, Hubba Hubbard, Makin' Hay, Post Hole (The Farmhouse)
*Broccoli, & variants , Cabbage, Deer Gauntlet [so true], G Is For Green, Great Greens, Tomato Factory, Watching Grass Grow (Other Half)
*Work Work Work, Pumpkin Escobar (Prison City)
*Gaia (Mortalis)

 

"Made with Ohio malts and hops."

 

Treehouse’s Green springs to mind.

 

But wouldn't a gardener want to avoid anything associated with Wicked Weed?

 

Is there a pumpkin beer named Slug Bait? Dibs.

 

Farmers Fresh, Fort Hill Brewery, Easthampton, MA

and their Fresh Pick, for that matter

 

I'm looking thru the beer list from Bell's and I see what can be called 'generic' beer names that relate to gardening:
Apple Ale, Berry Ale; Cherry Ale; Cherry Wheat; Chestnut Stout; Maple Porter, a little play on words with Mole' Stout, Oat Ale, Paw Paw Hefeweizen, Quince Love, Raspberry Ale, Rye Stout, and Wild Berry Rye

Then there are unique others:
A Bit of Heat
Grapefruit Spruce IPA
Habanero Pale Ale
Homegrown Ale
Honey Hearted
Kiwi Club Gose
Lavender Saison
Sweet Potato Saison
Sweet Potato Stout
Thump Yer Pumpkin

For you gardeners who didn't follow along a couple years ago when I started a thread and conducted some 'science' using beer as slug bait and reporting the results, here's a link to that old thread:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/different-uses-for-beer.644904/#post-6992187

FYI - I had no problem with slugs at all last year and never set out any beer traps, so maybe beer is a 'lasting' killer of slugs. (Or the beer was so bad that none of those critters want to come back. )

 

I drink beer when I garden.