Great time at another successful hop harvest in Yakima, WA and a huge thank you to the crew at Hop Union for making it happen. Outstanding presentations this year from Ralph Olson & Don Bryant, Ashley from White Labs, Ann George with the WA Hop Commission and Steve Dresler from Sierra Nevada.
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It hit 99F the day we visited the B.T. Loftus Ranch and hop farmer Mike Smith. This year he had planted a plot of about 25 different hops so you could see the differences between varieties up close and personal!
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