Rhizomes
For those of you looking for Rhizomes, sorry but there will be none available from our clean plants until 2019. The Doogs are not for sale.
Current Inventory
Well we are almost sold out from the 2016 hop growing season. Current varieties available are: Centennial: 1 lb Cascade: Sold out Columbus (CTZ) : 40 lbs Chinook: 2.5 lbs Crystal: 1.9lbs Sterling: 17.5 lbs Mount Hood: 1.5lbs Magnum: 2.4lbs Doogs: Sold out to a local brewer every year. If …
Harvest with the Wolf 2016
Wow, what a difference compared to hand picking.
Assembling the Wolf
Assembling the Wolf WHE 170 What a great machine. It was imported from Germany arriving in February, here we are in July getting it ready for the coming harvest.
Summit Plants
The Boxes and boxes of clean plant stock arrived from Summit Plant labs in Colorado. I didn’t get too many pictures of the “Meat Eating Bastards” and friends who showed up to help with the planting. All I can say is thank God they did. What a mammoth task… Thanks …
Yards A & B
Yard A was the first test plot, Yard B was the first expansion. It was a few years ago now. Here are some shots of The Yards prepared for the 2016 growing season.
Wolf WHE 170
Awesome News! The hop picker arrived from Germany this week. The USD exchange rate was a killer, but we are so stoked to have it. John has been amazing and will be coming back in the summer to re-assemble it in time for harvest… I don’t know who is happier …
Czech
I’ve been studying hops for a while now and have been curious about how they are grown in Europe. Having been to Prague before and totally falling in love with the city, we decided to base ourselves there and explore the hop growing regions of the Czech republic. What a …
Expansion for 2016
Well into the massive learning curve we have decided to plant another 2640 plant in the spring of 2016. Hop yards C & D have been set aside, measured, re-measured, paced, agonized over, re-measured, staked out and finally…. construction has started. It’s a lot of work for the one man …
Harvest 2015
Harvest 2015 was pretty good really. We are still on a small scale and although it was a tough growing season full of the challenges that occur when the temp is perfect for mildew, we did ok. Our Stirling hops were, well, for want of a better word Stirling…. Them and …