Farmed on a trellis system, hop plants can tower 20 feet, producing the cones that give beer complex flavors and bitterness. But higher temperatures reduce alpha acid production in those cones.

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Nurturing hop plants is an intricate process that demands patience and skill. Farmers work through the seasons to ensure the vines produce the highest quality hops. As harvest season approaches ...

What are hops though? The common hop plant, or Humulus lupulus, is a climbing plant often trained to grow up and around a structure or strings in a hop yard. These plants grow best in mild climates.

Hop plants love a well-drained, deep, sandy loam soil with a pH of 6 to 7.0. Plant nutrition consists of fertilizers applied in spring as well as manure or compost.

Billy Goat Hop Farm in Montrose is now offering hop farm tours, campsites for $25/night and Friday night events when it will serve hoppy beer. It is the last commercial hop farm in Colorado, said ...

For many farmers, the hop plants stood dormant much longer than usual due to a cooler spring -- which would have delayed harvest. However, several heat waves over the past few months got them ...

So my first question for Tom was, of course, about the poles. It seems that they are about 18 feet tall and are sunken into the ground a couple of feet. Hop Haven has used black locust poles ...

Hop bush, Hopseed (Dodonaea viscosa): This is one of my absolute favorites. It’s native to nearly every continent, and has beautiful light green foliage which is a nice contrast to many of our ...