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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]
Polaris was bred at the Hop Research Center Hüll in Germany already in 1999 but was released in 2012, when it was registered to the European Community Plant Variety Office as one of four Hüll “Special Flavor Hops”. It is derived from Hüll breeding lines, a Japanese breeding line, and the American Nugget hop variety, and was bred with the ...
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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 ...
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.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. was established in 1979 by homebrewers Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi in Chico, California, United States. [1] The brewery produced 786,000 US bbl (922,000 hl) in 2010, [2] and as of 2016, Sierra Nevada Brewing is the seventh-largest brewing company in the United States and is the third largest privately owned brewery in the United States.
Humulus, or hop, is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.The hop is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Hops are the female flowers (seed cones, strobiles) of the hop species H. lupulus; as a main flavor and aroma ingredient in many beer styles, H. lupulus is widely cultivated for use by the brewing industry.
Humulus lupulus, the common hop or hops, is a species of flowering plant in the hemp family, Cannabaceae. It is a perennial, herbaceous climbing plant which sends up new shoots in early spring and dies back to a cold-hardy rhizome in autumn. [2] It is dioecious (having separate male and female plants) and native to West Asia, Europe and North ...