Concept
Hop Farm
Also known as: hop yard, hops farm, hopyard
A farm whose primary production is hops — the bittering, aromatic, and stabilizing cones of *Humulus lupulus* that flavor and preserve beer. Hops are a perennial bine grown on tall trellised systems (typically 18 feet) and produce for 20–30 years from a single planting. The directory tracks hop farms primarily in the Pacific Northwest, Mid-Atlantic, Upper Midwest, and New England — the climate bands where the day-length and chill-hour requirements are met.
A hop farm grows hops. Worldwide hop production is concentrated in a handful of regions — Yakima Valley, Hallertau, Kent — and [[directory|the directory]]‘s hop-farm entries are mostly the smaller domestic operations supplying regional craft breweries.
What the directory tracks here
Aroma-hop varieties (Cascade, Centennial, Citra, Mosaic, Galaxy, Simcoe), bittering-hop varieties (Magnum, Apollo, Warrior, Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus), heritage and noble-hop varieties (Fuggles, East Kent Goldings, Saaz, Spalt, Tettnanger, Hallertau Mittelfrüh), wet-hop and fresh-hop operations selling to nearby breweries during harvest, organic-certified hop yards.
See also
Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.
- Instance of: [[farm]]
- Shares approach with: [[vineyard]]
- Instances: [[45th-parallel-hops]]
What links here, and how
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Practical
instance of
- 45th Parallel Hops primary product is hops for the brewing supply chain
contains
- Farm hops for brewing
also grows
- Meckley’s Flavor Fruit Farm secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
- Winter Sister Farm secondary product detected from name or OSM tag
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