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Hop Cones

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1. Chinook
2. Crystal
3. Fuggle
4. Galena
5. Hallertau
6. Liberty
7. Mt Hood
8. Nugget
9. Perle
10. Willamette

Misc Pictures

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1. Hop Rhizomes
2. Cross section of a Hallertau hop cone
3. A handful of hops

Hops on the Vine

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1. Unknown variety
2. Close up of Liberty on the vine
3. Close up of Saaz on the vine
4. Willamette on the vine

Hop Fields

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1. Hop field near the beginning of the growth season
2. Harvested hop field (foreground), hops in full growth (background)
3. Sunset on a harvested hop field

Growing and Harvesting

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1. Twining the fields for the new crop of hops
2. Training the newly grown hop to climb the twine
3. Harvesting the hop fields
4. Harvested hop vines arriving to be processed into bales
5. Seperating the hops from the debris (stones, stems, leaves, sticks etc...)through a picking machine.
6. Hops travelling to the kiln rooms
7. Hops being dropped into the kiln rooms
8. An overview of the drying rooms
9. Dried hops being pressed into a bale
10. Dried hops being baled
11. Disposal of the waste (stems, leaves) to be recycled into compost

Receiving at Hopunion

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1. Bales arriving ar Hopunion, setting ready for inspection and weighing
2. Bales being weighed and marked for storage
3. Brewer's cuts being taken from a bale for analysis
4. Ralph Olson checking the visual and aroma characteristics of a handful of hops
5. Hops being taken to a cold store warehouse.

Pelletizing

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1. Inside the pellet plant at Hopunion USA, looking at a hammer mill.
2. Inside the pellet plant at Hopunion USA, looking at a pellet die.
3. Boxes being filled.
4. Finished product.