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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 ...
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... It has a tropical flavor. ... and is a potent odorant of new-world hops. [3]
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.
The choice of a hop variety used in beer brewing depends on the beer style. For instance, lager styles use hop varieties with a low alpha acid content (such as Saaz and Hallertauer) while IPA styles use hop varieties with a high alpha acid content (such as Cascade, Centennial and Chinook).
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.
[99] [100] The beer is brewed with wheat malt, two-row barley, orange, lemon, lime peel, coriander and Cascade and Willamette hops. Entering as the Spring Heat Spiced Wheat, Shock Top Belgian White won gold and bronze medals in the Belgian Wit (White) category at the 2006 and 2007 North American Beer Awards, earning the reputation as America's ...