Most folks know that hops is used in beer but brewers aside, few people
know what it really is or why.

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Most folks know that hops is used in beer but brewers aside, few people
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Nice hops, and love your telescope as well...nice place you got there.

Gerard

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Most folks know that hops is used in beer but brewers aside, few people
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I've been tempted to grow golden hops as an ornamental several times, but
have yet to buy a vine or two.

Cheryl

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Most folks know that hops is used in beer but brewers aside, few people
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I've been tempted to grow golden hops as an ornamental several times, but
have yet to buy a vine or two.

Well do it and you can give me the cones to make beer.. I like Cascade, Perle,
and Tetnanger.

Also, I thought hops were used as preservative in beer.

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Great hop pictures! I worked as office manager for a hop farm here in Idaho
for about 15 years so I'm well aware of what hops are. :-) Even learned to
like the pungent smell of hops when they were harvested. NEVER learned to
like the smell of hop trash (what's left after the cones are shaken off the
vines). In the winter, you did NOT want to follow a truck that was hauling
the hop trash out to spread on the fields.
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Great hop pictures! I worked as office manager for a hop farm here in
Idaho for about 15 years so I'm well aware of what hops are. :-) Even
learned to like the pungent smell of hops when they were harvested. NEVER
learned to like the smell of hop trash (what's left after the cones are
shaken off the vines). In the winter, you did NOT want to follow a truck
that was hauling the hop trash out to spread on the fields.
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worse than rotten spuds???
Buzz--hauled the 'taters

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Dan Logcher wrote:
Cheryl Isaak wrote:

On 9/19/06 8:28 AM, in article
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Most folks know that hops is used in beer but brewers aside, few people
know what it really is or why.

js

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I've been tempted to grow golden hops as an ornamental several times, but
have yet to buy a vine or two.


Well do it and you can give me the cones to make beer.. I like Cascade,
Perle,
and Tetnanger.

Also, I thought hops were used as preservative in beer.

That was one of the original reasons; now it's mostly for flavor.

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I guess rotten potatoes and rotten fermented hop vines are probably pretty
much equal in the stink category!
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"2fatbbq" wrote in message
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"Donna in Idaho" wrote in message
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Great hop pictures! I worked as office manager for a hop farm here in
Idaho for about 15 years so I'm well aware of what hops are. :-) Even
learned to like the pungent smell of hops when they were harvested.
NEVER learned to like the smell of hop trash (what's left after the cones
are shaken off the vines). In the winter, you did NOT want to follow a
truck that was hauling the hop trash out to spread on the fields.
--



worse than rotten spuds???
Buzz--hauled the 'taters

Donna in Idaho
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"Donna in Idaho" wrote in message
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Great hop pictures! I worked as office manager for a hop farm here in
Idaho for about 15 years so I'm well aware of what hops are. :-) Even
learned to like the pungent smell of hops when they were harvested. NEVER
learned to like the smell of hop trash (what's left after the cones are
shaken off the vines). In the winter, you did NOT want to follow a truck
that was hauling the hop trash out to spread on the fields.
--
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Where in Idaho are the hops grown? I live in Eastern Washington, might be an
interesting trip.

Bill

Where in Idaho are the hops grown? I live in Eastern Washington, might be
an interesting trip.

Bill

Two areas in Idaho - northern Idaho - almost to the Canadian border and the
area around Caldwell, Parma, & Wilder, Idaho (southwest Idaho where I live).
Not nearly as many hops being grown around here any more. The farm I worked
for got completely out of the hop business a year after I retired and others
have cut back on their acreage. Hops are terribly expensive to grow with
lots of hand labor required and not as much money in them as there used to
be.
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On 2006-09-20, Donna in Idaho wrote:

lots of hand labor required and not as much money in them as there used to
be.

Is that the reason hops completely disappeared from CA?

nb ....3 summers on a Sacramento hops farm

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wrote:

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

On 9/19/06 8:28 AM, in article
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wrote:


Most folks know that hops is used in beer but brewers aside, few people
know what it really is or why.

js

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I've been tempted to grow golden hops as an ornamental several times, but
have yet to buy a vine or two.

Well do it and you can give me the cones to make beer.. I like Cascade,
Perle,
and Tetnanger.

Also, I thought hops were used as preservative in beer.
Will do Dan!

C

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Very nice photo. I first saw hops growing when we visited the historic
Strawberry Banke village in New Hampshire. They were being used as a
decorative vine on a fence and arbor and were quite attractive.

My son-in-law is growing a few selected varieties for home beer brewing
that he ordered from someplace in Oregon. In their second year, the
vines are quite pretty and there is enough "fruit" to harvest.

gloria p

Not sure. When I first started working for the hop farm (1983) I think hop
growing in California had already disappeared. If not then, soon after.
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"notbob" wrote in message
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Is that the reason hops completely disappeared from CA?

nb ....3 summers on a Sacramento hops farm

On 2006-09-20, Donna in Idaho wrote:
Not sure. When I first started working for the hop farm (1983) I think hop
growing in California had already disappeared. If not then, soon after.

Isn't the internet great? Film of early hops farming around Sacrament:

http://www.sacramentohistory.org/films_hopfarm.html#

nb