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I had a chance to speak with the farm manager a few years ago at an event in Yakima. He was telling me that they were preparing for an 'invasion' of beer writers from all over as a means of promotion for this facility. So not only did he have to oversee the day to day management of all that...

The heat really isn't your big concern. Take a look at the average temps between Dallas and Yakima (they grow about 75% of the hops in the USA right in the Yakima valley): https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/yakima/washington/united-states/uswa0502 and...

Could also be lupuloides: https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=HULUL. If you go to the main page on hops you can find info on all the others that can be found here in N America. Also, not the greatest, but a few pics of powdery mildew.

From strictly a production standpoint, you can look at the individual varieties yield/acre on this chart and get a general idea of which ones are big producers and which are poor. https://www.hopsteiner.com/variety-data-sheets/ The further away you get from their optimum growing region will...

Yep, follicles! http://beyondthehumaneye.blogspot.com/2011/09/hooked-on-hops.html

I think I got my copy in like '93, worth the $75 it cost back then. All the information is a great foundation to build on and may surprise you when it comes to what a lot of current 'information' has been floating around the internet in recent years has claimed, haha!

Can't say. During dormancy the plant kind of regroups and prepares for the next season of growth, this is a natural process and occurs like clockwork in every region that grows substantial amounts of hops (S. Africa is an exception). At this point, your plant is expending energy that is...

It's confused. When hops are grown in the appropriate environment they will go through a period of dormancy after they produce their crop. Dormancy is usually brought on as the days continue to get shorter along with the soil temp falling to a range that's known to be appropriate to...

Roger K mentions a version in his review: https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-dutch-udder-craft-ice-cream-troy. I've tasted it and it reminded me of Whitehouse ice cream I had when I was little. There were chunks of maraschino cherries blended into vanilla ice cream. Dutch Udder basically does the...

It will be interesting to see how this unfolds as some of the details aren't real clear. Similar to the Indie hops deal where they 'donated' big bucks to help fund aroma hop breeding at Oregon State with a new variety that was released this fall, who is that available to, and what will be the...

New funds going into the aroma hop breeding program!! https://www.brewersassociation.org/press-releases/brewers-association-funds-public-hop-breeding-program/

Who was the local grower and were they dried before packaging? Also, what are the numbers on them?

So so true! Mine too is a work in progress. Started off in '86 with two countertop washing machine kettles (6+gallons each) which were probably $8 and $11. Then went out and blew about $25 on the copper for the counterflow, wow, chilling from a boil to 65F in 30min!! The stove , which was a...

Don't feel bad, there are so many different types of inflorescences due to the uniqueness of all plants and the nomenclature can become very confusing, especially after a few beers, ha!

The male inflorescence of a hop plant (male sex organ if you will) is essentially termed a cymose panicle. In a raceme you don't have a flower on the terminal point of the inflorescence, fyi.

All the sources I've ever seen have mentioned that the pollen can travel up to a mile on the wind. And yes, hops are wind pollinated and don't rely on other pollinators.

ps: these are some photos of a patch of japonicus I came across this past Summer:

I really cannot say for sure about the viability by the appearance of the different seeds other than to say that each different genotype tends to have seeds that look unique to itself (genotype A may have all very large and tan colored seeds and genotype B has seeds that are half as big and...

I've had them go from a dark grey to very pale, almost cream colored. Most are grey-tan colored. Once the burrs are pollinated, a 'baby bump' appears in the cones as they mature. Actually, the bracteole that carries the seed will become much larger than the other in the pair and if you look...

There's a few companies out there trying to replicate the oil profiles of some 'hard to get' hops but it's very difficult to get it right as there are literally hundreds of compounds found in hop oil and sometimes it's the ones that are found in very small quantities that are responsible for...