Well @papa-pepper, I could give you some ideas to accomplish your goal and achieve that your new beard grow with maximum sex-appeal and glamour.

This is nothing more than letting it grow freely, wild and sylvan. And then, in short time, you may well can crown a majestic Gandalf beard like mine that not even a twitchy deer would jump. Just look here below the mighty style!!

PS. But ¡Watchout! once you get it. From that moment on, you just will have to be careful not to step on it and fall down over your homestead tomatoes. };)