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Hop farms in the Pacific Northwest region comprise approximately 96% of total United States hop acreage. [3] One acre of hops consists of 889 plants, each of which can produce upwards of two pounds of cones. [3] Hop acreage is categorized by alpha, aroma, and dual purpose type and further divided by varietals.
Hallertau hop cone. This is a list of varieties of hop (Humulus lupulus). As there are male and female plants, the flowers (cones) of the female plant are fertilized by the pollen of the male flowers with the result that the female flowers form seeds. These seeds are eaten by birds and hence spread over vast distances.
In early 2008, amidst a worldwide shortage of hops—a key ingredient in beer—Boston Beer Company agreed to sell 20,000 pounds of its hops, at cost, to craft brewers throughout the United States. The company selected 108 craft brewers to divide the 20,000 pounds they had spare. [55] [56] Samuel Adams shared their hops again in June 2012. [55]
With the frenzy of the 2025 NBA trade deadline now behind us, the attention of the NBA-watching world now shifts to the Bay Area for the high-octane basketball exhibition/convention/trade show ...
The hop plant is a vigorous climbing herbaceous perennial, usually trained to grow up strings in a field called a hopfield, hop garden (in the South of England), or hop yard (in the West Country and United States) when grown commercially. Many different varieties of hops are grown by farmers around the world, with different types used for ...
Chinook was originally the name of a village on the mouth of the Columbia. The first source to use the term Chinook to label a region was a map by ethnologist Horatio Hale from the 1844 Wilkes Expedition. He drew boundaries based on language, which were followed by later maps. [15] Earlier maps, such as Lewis and Clark's, had only labelled ...
Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages.Since at least 4000 BCE Chinookan peoples have resided along the upper and Middle Columbia River (Wimahl) ("Great River") from the river's gorge (near the present town of The Dalles, Oregon) downstream (west) to the river's mouth, and along adjacent ...
Cascade hop cones in the sunlight. Cascade is one of the many cultivars of hops. Cascade hops are one of the most widely used hops by craft breweries in the United States. [1] Cascade was the most widely planted hop by growers in the US for many years, before being surpassed by Citra hops in 2018. [2]