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45th Parallel Hops

A Michigan hop yard in Hawks, in the state's far-northern Lower Peninsula, growing aromatic, noble, and bittering hops including three regional varieties — Triple Pearl, Michigan Copper, Michigan Mackinac — that the farm has developed for the Great Lakes growing conditions. Sells direct to brewers and homebrewers.

What they do

45th Parallel Hops grows [[detroit|Michigan]]-grown aromatic, noble, and bittering hops at the latitude that names the farm (the 45th parallel runs through [[detroit|Michigan]]‘s far-northern Lower Peninsula). The yard cultivates three categories of varieties:

  • Traditional American: Centennial, Cascade, Willamette
  • European: Fuggle, Mittelfrüh
  • New Wave ([[detroit|Michigan]]-bred): Triple Pearl, [[detroit|Michigan]] Copper, Michigan Mackinac

The operation sells direct-to-brewer online and on supply contract. It also distributes imported hops in partnership with Polish Hop Distributors — bringing Polish noble varieties into the same supply pipeline as their [[detroit|Michigan]]-grown crop.

Why it’s listed

Hops are the most regionally-concentrated crop [[directory|the directory]] tracks — worldwide production sits in a handful of latitude bands. Domestic alternatives to the Yakima Valley duopoly matter both for craft-brewing resilience and for soil-and-[[genetic-diversity|genetic diversity]] in temperate hop agriculture. 45th Parallel Hops also does the rarer work of breeding region-specific varieties (the three Michigan-named cultivars) — that’s regional-adaptation genetics, parallel to heirloom-cultivar stewardship in tree-fruit orchards.

[[directory|The directory]] lists hop farms that grow domestically, sell direct, and contribute to regional cultivar diversity.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Instance of: [[hop-farm]]
  • Shares approach with: [[regenerative-agriculture]]
  • Member of: [[farm]]
  • Contained by: [[western-michigan]]
  • Grows: [[hops]]

Sources

A listing in the [[0mn1one|0mn1.one]] [[directory]]. Filed under [[western-michigan]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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