What Did Our Research Hop Yard Look Like in 2011?

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11/2/2022 – This article remains as a historical, pictorial documentation of the very early years in our hop growing research and industry in North Carolina. Check out the progress we’ve made since then in posts and pages on this website.

8/5/2011 – We are getting lots of inquiries about our research hop yard and how it is doing. I don’t have the time right now to give a full update, but here are recent pictures.

researchers working in hop yard

This group of pictures was taken on July 28, 2011. This was our first harvest, so we were figuring out our methods as we went along.

researchers harvesting hops
The strings are slack because we lower the top wire to facilitate harvesting.
basket of harvested hops
We harvest into small containers because these are research plots. We have five plants of each of the ten varieties, but that is replicated four times (so we actually have 20 plants of each variety).
researchers harvesting hops
Just another shot to show how lowering the bines facilitates harvest. You also get a good view of our major weed control method.
researchers harvesting hops
More harvesting.
harvesting hops
This gives a good view of the number of cones on this particular variety (no, I don’t know which one this was).
bags of hops drying
The first time we dried our hops we put them in bags in a forced air dryer at 100 degrees F. That caused some browning. The next time we laid them out in a single layer on the screens in my big herb dryer and that worked great. The cones stayed almost as green as when they were fresh.
hop vine three weeks before harvest
This was just a nice shot taken on July 6th. This was three weeks before harvest.
participants at a public hop yard tour
We had a public hop yard tour on July 18th. The morning was cold and wet, but 60-70 people turned out to learn and share.
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