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Hops are the flowers of the hop plant. Hops are what add bitterness and flavour to all different kinds of beer.
These hops are grown on an 18 foot high trellis which maximizes their growing patterns. A series of poles and cables are used to support the hop plants.
The hop plants follow the sun as it crosses the sky. They climb and curl around the supports. Hops can climb a foot each day.
Farmers start harvesting first thing in the morning. The hop plant and support string are cut off right at the bottom.
A grain truck drives down the rows and hops are harvested into the truck bed and delivered to the processing barn.
A machine is used to separate the hops from the leaves. Every vine is loaded individually into the machine on a chain that will drag it into finger picking drums.
Finger picking drums are rollers that knock all the leaves and hops off of the vines
Another conveyor takes the clean hops out and loads them to be dried.
The last conveyor collects all the rope and leaves to be disposed of.
After the green hop cone is harvested from the field, they need to be dried down, ground up and pelletized.