U.S. Hops Rhizome Sources

Guide to buying hops online

I've been shopping a lot for rhizomes and figured I'd lay it out for all that are on the same path.

Thyme Garden: $3 flat rate shipping - $5.35-$7.50/rhizome

Freshops: Higher shipping - $4.50-$10 Good selection

American Brewmaster: Avg-S&H $3.95 - $5.05

Morebeer: Free shipping over $59, $4.50 ea. - Lots of "out of stock" products

Northern Brewer: Flat $7.99 shipping. $5.99 ea. Limited selection.

Midwest: $4.60 flat shipping, $4.25ea - several varieties out of stock

E-Brew: Actual shipping - $3.59ea, decent selection, out of some varieties

Beer Essentials: Mod-High S&H - $4.50ea, lots of "out of stock"

Hoptech: Unknown shipping - $4.25ea, not yet available

Keystone: Actual Shipping, $4.50ea, good selection

Bader: Avg S&H, $3.99ea, out of a few var.

Adventures: Avg S&H, $4.99-$5.99, decent selection

Mountain: Avg S&H, $4.99, decent selection

DIY Brewing: Free shipping, $4.50 ea, decent selection

4B farms: Free shipping, bundles of (50)Willamette or (10)Nugget for $14.95!

There are more out there, but this covers a pretty good spectrum. Let me know if I missed any and I'll add it. With a lot of these, shipping will cheaper if you are closer to the source. I'd suggest checking local sources before ordering online.

Added - DIY thanks to Donasay & 4B farms thanks to this thread

Bad link for Bader.

Good link here:
https://webtrolley.com/~bader/store/home.php?cat=408&sort=title&sort_direction=0

Rhizomes NikoBrew

$4 on most $4.50 on a couple, $5 flat rate shipping, good variety

All sites are either (out till March) or taking pre-orders. They just do not get dug up till then. check out my deal for group members. So hold on to your pots,shovels,hoes ect. If its nice enough were u r get your garden ready.

I will have limited varities of Rhizomes. Cascades and Chinooks are on my site others will be added soon

coloradoorganichops.com [email protected]

Happy Almost Hoppin Glen

I decided to try my hand at building a hop trellis and growing fresh hops this season. I was pleased to see that for the first time AustinHomeBrew.com had hop rhizomes available. This was there first year selling rhizomes and shortly after receiving mine, they sent me a survey to see how my experience was.

I must admit, I had never seen a hop rhizome in person so I had no clue what to expect. They arrived and each were contained in there own paper bag which was nice. However, several of them were very flimsy and stick-like. They did not look very viable, but hell, what do I know...

On a funny side note, I was going to place a link in this post directly to them on the Austin site but they have since removed all reference to rhizomes which I find very odd. At least leave them there and put 'Out of Stock' so people at least know that you sell them!

Anyway, I digress... I bought mine for approximately $5.99 each and bought 3 cascade (which I brew with most), 3 Centennial, and 2 Fuggle. They have been in the ground at my house in southern NJ for over a month, and only 2 of the Centennial have breached the soil.

I feared that I had put them too deep into the soil so I ended up digging up the 6 that had not sprouted yet to see if they had signs of life and 3 of them did and would have been close to breaching soil had I not dug them up.

I replanted them 2" under the soil this time instead of 6" in hopes that they will still grow. I am not sure what to do with the others. I might pull them out and try using root-tone on them. I have done this in the past with other plants and hope this works on rhizomes. Any advice would be much appreciated on this subject.