This should be of interest to homebrewers, winemakers, and mead-makers
(and therefore many bee-keepers, too). I'm happy to announce that our
'Grow-Hops' group, which originated as a 'Yahoo Group' and therefore
functions primarily as a 'mail-list', is now expanding to add our own
private-domain website -- http://www.grow-hops.com -- complete with
'Forums' to include 'general homebrewing', and 'winemaking' because of
common garden issues, and 'bee-keeping' because of mead, and bees are
good for the garden, too.

This should be good news to those of you who were interested in our
narrowly-focused topics about homebrewer-gardening: for growing hops,
barley, and brewing-herbs, but did not want to join us because you do
not care for Yahoo and/or mail-list type of discussions. With our own
website, we NOW offer the more typical 'Forums' (or 'bulletin-board'
type discussions) which are divided into separate subject categories.

Although we haven't really begun using our forums at our .com site yet,
this announcement coincides with with an announcement to our current
Grow-Hops Yahoo members, so I hope that we will see the start of many
interesting topics there, and I warmly invite all of you to visit our
forums to just lurk or to fully participate in our various discussions;
our grow-hops.com forums are here --
http://www.ultrabrew.net/hopwiki/tiki-forums.php -- and you will
probably notice that it says "Grow-Hops Wiki". Well, that is one of our
projects -- a sort of on-line encyclopedia about growing hops, and I
just haven't learned enough about managing this type of TikiWiki to get
around to fixing everything at once (for instance, I will be changing
the settings so that instead of our Wiki, the Forums will be the default
page for our group. Our free-rhizome exchange was a big success, and
now we are planning to have a whole-hops exchange, too.

Our Grow-Hops group currently has 1,962 members and is undoubtedly the
largest group combining the interests of homebrewing and gardening. To
join our Yahoo Group, visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops

Thanks for your time and interest.

Bill Velek