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North Carolina To Grow Hops

June 1, 2010 By Jay Brooks

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The Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer has an interesting article, Brewers Have High Hopes For N.C. Hops, about farmers in the state, centered in the mountains around Asheville, experimenting with planting hops.

Hoping to build on the craft-brewing and local food movements, N.C. State University researchers in Raleigh and a handful of farmers in the mountains are growing experimental plots of hops, the cone-shaped flower clusters that brewers add to beer for bitterness and aroma and as a natural preservative.

Rob Austin, Deanna Osmond, and Jeanine Davis at NCSU got a $28,000, one-year grant this year from the Golden LEAF Foundation to investigate the commercial viability of growing hops here. In March, a couple of volunteers from a soon-to-open Durham brewery called Fullsteam came to help researchers plant a small plot of about 200 plants at a university field laboratory near Lake Wheeler south of Raleigh.

With tobacco demand presumably in steady decline, it would certainly be interesting to see the south rise again with farmers turning to hops.

Filed Under: News, Related Pleasures Tagged With: Hops, Ingredients, North Carolina, Southern States



Comments

  1. Julie says

    June 1, 2010 at 9:36 am

    Jay, you might be interested to know that the largest NC hop field just had their grand opening at Echoview Farms in Weaverville (WNC) this past Saturday.

    More info here: http://www.echoviewfarm.com/content.php?s=hops

  2. Tom from Raleigh says

    June 2, 2010 at 7:05 am

    Another aspect of the move away from tobacco is that a lot of these potential hop farmers own drying facilities for tobacco. While they are not the specialized equipment used by hop farmers in the PNW, farmers are handy enough to figure out a way to reuse what they already own. Alternatively, they could just the undried hops fresh to breweries in the region.

  3. first stater says

    June 2, 2010 at 3:37 pm

    No worries about the downy mildew that killed the eastern hop farms?

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