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Currently you can go to www.greatlakeshops.com which will direct you to our Facebook page while our website is being constructed. From there you can see all of our products currently in stock and available for purchase on ebay. For orders of less than 100 or so plants there's no need to...

Picking the right hops to plant is important. You can save a lot of grief by learning more about the varieties before you purchase. The 3rd generation hybrids are awesome compared to the old standard nobles but it is very difficult to find rhizomes. Also consider your planting site conditions...

3D, Try lowering the water level to about half full and only stick about 1" of the cutting into the water. Back off the lights to 12 " away. Lay a cheap thermostat on the shelf and do not exceed 85 deg. (Raise the lights more if you have to) Make the cutting 6-10 " long with two to 3 nodes max...

We've been around HBT for awhile now, but decided to make it "official". We grow top quality certified hop plants and crowns commercially and decided to make them available to craft brewers also. We ship nationwide and year-around with 33 varieties available. Check us out on the Vendor list...

This is one of the screened growing areas. The Cascade block pictured is about 7 weeks old and has been trimmed once already. They grow incredibly fast when temps hit 80 degrees. By week 9 most varieties are setting burrs (flowers in hop lingo). It is a full-time job for our crew to keep up with...

See the large red circle? That's what we send you! The small red circle is an overly generous representation of what you might hope to get from "the other guy".

Starter plants are up-sized to one gallon pots for crown development. The bines are trimmed, trellised, and moved to outdoor screened growing areas. There are about 1400 pots per bench(X 6) and they rotate production every two weeks; like an assembly line. We allot about 25,000 square feet of...

This is a pic of a "stock" block. These plants are originally from certified virus indexed stock and supply the starter material used to produce new plants. Our stock collection is maintained in- house and has taken nearly 3 years to develop.

This is where it all begins - with a new plant produced from top quality stock. Starting with disease-free stock makes a huge difference in vigor and yield potential. The plant in this pic is a typical 4 week old start.

All of the 33 varieties (and counting) are grown in our own hops trials for comparisons, yield potential, and commercial production suitability in the great lakes area. We could not find good information on this so we a doing it ourselves. The plants shown were starts in April and this photo was...

This pic shows a week 8 set of hop starts on our ebb-flow bench system. They are flood irrigated twice daily. These plants are ready for shipping as starts or will be planted out for crown production. We custom grow to order for large quantities.

This is a typical Cascade crown with multiple shoots, buds, and heavy root structure. Crowns are fresh processed to order- never stored like rhizomes. One crown is the equivalent of 2 to 4 rhizomes!

A typical Zeus cone - They're huge! Super alpha of 18 -20. (Makes your eyes water when you snort em') They are square cones like a giant-sized cascade cone.

Variety: Cascade - 6 months old w/ "square " long cones that have a great citrus aroma. Early bearing compared to most types. Our plants that have been through anti-virus treatments set cones very well; as the pic shows.

Variety: Chinook - 6 months old, in our container growing system on short 10' high trellis. From top cuttings and growing like a weed in the test plot. This is one of my favorite hops. Great aroma and high Alpha!

All of the 33 varieties (and counting) are grown in our own hops trials for comparisons, yield potential, and commercial production suitability in the great Oh Yeah, though I walk through the valley in the shadow of hops, I will fear no evil brews . . . This pic is for the unbelivers that walk...

A case (6) of Cascade hops ready for pickup or processing for crowns. These plants were started in May from hop starts and this pic was taken in mid August. Note they are bearing cones first year!