Ik proef een Meantime Brewing Yakima Red. Ik verwacht een moutig amberbier, maar word verrast door een hoppige geur en smaak. Zou het etiket zijn verwisseld met de IPA? Nee, want dit bier is echt rood. De smaak is hoppig. Echt heel hoppig. Beetje grassig hoppig. Niet wrang of floraal of harserig, maar grasserig. Beetje waterig mondgevoel en in de nasmaak zit een wat ongemakkelijk smaakje.
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Checkt er een gast in en een gast uit in het LionRedHotel aan de 607 E Yakima Ave, Yakima, WA, Verenigde Staten.
Yakima is dus een Amerikaanse plaats..En wat voor een plaats...het is de hoofdstad van dezelfde county:
Yakima is Washington's second-largest county in area, covering 4,296 square miles (2.7 million acres), and ranks seventh in population with 222,581 residents counted in the 2000 United States census. The city of Yakima is the county seat...Yakima County's primary industry is agriculture, bolstered by an annual average of 300 days of sunshine and nutrient-rich volcanic soil and enabled by Yakima River irrigation projects. Yakima County is bordered on the west by wilderness areas: the Norse Peak Wilderness and Pierce County to the northwest, the William O. Douglas Wilderness/Snoqualmie National Forest/Goat Rocks Wilderness and Lewis County to the central west, and the Cascade Mountain Range/Mt. Adams Wilderness and Skamania County to the southwest. Kittitas County borders Yakima to the north and the two counties share the 260,000-acre Yakima Firing Center United States Military Reservation. Benton County borders Yakima to the east, and Klickitat County to the south. The Yakama Indian Reservation comprises 1,271,918 acres (1,573 square miles) in the southern portion of Yakima County and extending into Klickitat County. The reservation encompasses several towns including Parker, Wapato, Toppenish, Vessey Springs, and White Swan, as well as part of the Simcoe mountain range. ...The eastern half of Mount Adams (12,276 feet), an active andesitic stratovolcano, extends into the southwestern corner of Yakima County. Mount Adams is the third highest peak in the Cascade Range and the second highest peak in Washington (after Mount Rainier)...The name Yakima has been translated to mean black bear (from yah-kah, meaning black bear, and the plural ending ma), or runaway, referring either to the rushing waters of the Yakima River or to a tribal legend about a runaway or deported daughter of a Yakama chief...The first town in the county was Yakima City, established in 1861 and incorporated in 1883. In 1884 the Northern Pacific Railroad located its station four miles north of Yakima City and the townspeople moved most of the town's buildings north to the station. Incorporated in 1886 and initially called North Yakima, in 1918 the new town became simply Yakima. The old town was then renamed Union Gap. Moxee was founded in 1867. Over the next four decades other Yakima County towns were established, although some were little more than names for their first few years and were not officially incorporated for many more: Mabton (incorporated 1905), Toppenish (incorporated 1907), and Wapato (incorporated 1908) were founded in 1885. Zillah was established in 1892 and incorporated in 1911, Sunnyside was established in 1893 and incorporated in 1902. Granger, established in 1902, and Grandview, established in 1906, both incorporated in 1909. Selah was founded in 1907 and incorporated in 1919, Naches was established in 1908 and incorporated in 1921. Tieton incorporated in 1942 and Harrah in 1946. (www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7651).
Yakima is een plaats (city) in de Amerikaanse staat Washington, die bestuurlijk gezien onder Yakima County valt. De naam is afgeleid van de Yakama, een indianenvolk dat niet ver van Yakima leeft.
Sinds 1868 wordt er in de omgeving van Yakima veel hop geteeld, dat onmisbaar is voor de productie van bier. Tegenwoordig neemt Yakima Valley zo'n 75 % van de Amerikaanse hopproductie voor zijn rekening.
In Yakima wordt sinds 1961 het wereldwijd gebruikte broodclipje gefabriceerd, dat in 1952 werd uitgevonden door Floyd G. Paxton.
In 2009 kwam de stad in het nieuws doordat de overheid een wet goedkeurde die verbood opzichtige strings of doorzichtige kleding te dragen (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakima).
The first wine grapes in the Yakima Valley were planted in 1869, the first hops in 1872, and the first commercial fruit orchard in 1887. All of these crops would eventually become major parts of Yakima County's primary industry, agriculture. Once the land was pegged for commercial fruit production, the transformation from sagebrush to cultivated acreage was accomplished briskly. In the Selah Valley, for example, 36,000 fruit trees were reportedly set out in one year alone (www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7651).
Smack between the Columbia Basin and the Coastal Range in Washington, the Yakima Valley was in 1983 designated the first wine-growing appellation north of California. The sun-soaked wine region includes more than 100 award-winning wineries that produce delicious whites and smooth and complex reds.
But it's not all grapes: along with the best wineries to visit, we've also dug out the pick of the region's apple and hop (and cherry and apricot!) breweries and distilleries (www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/washington/yakima-valley/travel-tips-and-articles/77796).
Een broodclipje, ook wel broodzaksluiting of broodzaksluiter genoemd, is een plastic vierkant klemmetje met een uitsparing, dat gebruikt wordt om een broodzakje te sluiten. Wanneer de broodzak goed gesloten wordt, is de inhoud langer houdbaar. De productiedatum of de houdbaarheidsdatum kunnen op de clip worden gestempeld.
Het broodclipje zou in 1952 zijn uitgevonden door de Amerikaan Floyd G. Paxton (1918-1975) toen hij een zakje pinda's wilde sluiten en daarvoor met zijn zakmes van een oude kartonnen creditcard een klemmetje sneed. Hij ontwikkelde een machine die zulke klemmetjes van plexiglas vervaardigde, maar slaagde er niet in een patent op de broodclipjes vast te laten leggen.
In 1961 vestigde hij een bedrijf, de Kwik Lok Corporation (van 'Quick Lock', "snelle sluiting") in Yakima (Washington), dat als eerste broodclips uit plastic ging vervaardigen. Jerre H. Paxton, Floyds opvolger, liet in 1967 een patent vastleggen (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broodclipje).
It's called a bread clip, because this is its most common use. But that white plastic tab that keeps a bag of bread closed started life as a way to keep peanuts in place. Its inventor, Floyd G. Paxton, was apparently quite fond of telling the story, probably because it made him a rich man. While on a flight in 1952, Paxton wanted to close a bag of peanuts. Encouraged by boredom, he used a pen knife to whittle the basic design out of an expired credit card. When a large fruit supplier shopped around for ways to replace the rubber bands used to close their bags, Paxton suggested the tab. Pacific Fruit ordered a million and the bread clip has been with us ever since (www.bdo.co.za/resources/showitemarticle.asp?ResourceSectionId=4&ResourceSectionName=Publications&ResourceId=4&ResourceName=Headstart&IssueId=398&ContentPageID=&Archive=&articleid=389).
Hoe handig ook, soms worden ze opgegeten (http://geekologie.com/2011/09/doctors-classify-bread-clips-in-hopes-of.php):
http://www.yakima.com/ is niet gebruikt door de stad Yakima of de broodclipfabriek, maar een autorackbedrijfje: "Yakima is the world's leading brand of car racks, including roof racks, bike racks, cargo trailers and boxes, canoe and kayak racks, ski racks, and more."
De naam Yakima doet me niet denken aan broodclips of hop, maar aan de 'Japanse maffia':
Yakuza (Japans: ヤクザ), ook bekend als gokudō (Japans: 極道) door de Japanse politie en de media, op verzoek van de Japanse politie, bōryokudan (Japans: 暴力団, "gewelddadige groep(en)") genaamd. Zij noemen zichzelf ninkyō dantai (Japans: 任侠団体 of 仁侠団体, "ridderlijke organisaties").
De Yakuza is een Japanse criminele organisatie die al meer dan 100 jaar actief is en door de buitenlandse pers ook gewoonweg de Japanse maffia wordt genoemd. Ze zijn ingedeeld in verschillende rivaliserende bendes (kumi’s).
Men kan Yakuza opdelen in drie delen: Ya (betekent acht), ku (betekent negen) en za (betekent drie), afgeleid uit het Japanse kaartspel Oicho-Kabu. Een gokspel dat gespeeld wordt met kabufuda kaarten. De combinatie 8, 9 en 3 is de slechtste hand die je kan hebben (vergelijkbaar met 2,7 bij texas-hold'm poker) en vergt dus de meeste vaardigheid voor het inschatten van je tegenstander. Mogelijk dat de combinatie 8,9,3 ook staat voor een slechte toekomst, geen geluk, voor die gene die het op zou nemen tegen de Yakuza.
De moderne yakuza kwam pas in het beeld in het midden van de 17e eeuw. Zij stammen af van twee verschillende groepen: de tekiya (helers en smokkelaars) en de bakuto (betrokkenen uit de gokwereld). De Tekiya, één van de lagere sociale groepen, maakten eigen organisaties en namen administratieve plichten (met betrekking tot de handel) over. Uiteindelijk erkende De overheid de Tekiya organisaties het dragen van een zwaard, naast samoerais en jonkheren. De Bakuto hebben kleine gokhuizen opgezet in verlaten tempels of kerkhoven aan de rand van een stad of dorp over heel Japan. De plaatsen als de Bakuto werden met minachting bekeken door de samenleving. Het hedendaagse ongewenste imago van de yakuza is ontstaan door de Bakuto.
Yakuza gebruiken sinds honderden jaren grote tatoeages als herkenningsteken en om zich als individu met een hogere rang te onderscheiden. Boeren en handarbeiders gaven zich na het aansluiten bij de Yakuza nieuwe, gevaarlijk klinkende namen zoals tijger, negen draken en stormvogel, die ze dan in deze vorm op rug of borst lieten tatoeeren. Daarnaast werden ook nog vaak kunstzinnige versieringen aangebracht, vaak werd alles tot en met hoofd, handen, voeten en schaambereik van tatoeages voorzien. Ook tegenwoordig worden tatoeages in directe zin met de Yakuza geassocieerd, waardoor getatoeëerden meestal in openbare baden geweigerd worden (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza).
Toch is er dus hop in Yakima:
Visiting a cidery, distillery or brewery is a popular adventure when traveling, but really understanding where the main ingredients come from is unique to the Yakima Valley. Why? Because we grow them. Our fertile agricultural valley grows the vast majority of the nation’s hops, hundreds of thousands of acres of tree fruit and 13,000 acres of vineyards (http://spiritsandhopstrail.com/yakima-valley-breweries-distilleries.asp) (http://spiritsandhopstrail.com/yakima-valley-spirits-hops-trail-map.asp).
(www.seattletimes.com/outdoors/sniffing-out-yakima-valley-hops-beer-lovers-can-hail-plant-that-flavors-ale/?syndication=rss)
Yakima Valley Visitor Information Center
Visitor information, Maps, Tour Planning
101 N Fair Avenue
Yakima, WA 98901
The Tuscan-themed Yakima Valley Visitor Information Center is your first stop to an enjoyable visit in Washington Wine Country. Check out the unique gifts, Yakima Valley products and large selection of Yakima Valley wine for sale. Staff members will assist you in selecting your ideal travel itinerary, help you with lodging arrangements, plot directions on maps and send you on your way to a pleasant stay in this bountiful agricultural mecca (http://spiritsandhopstrail.com/yakima-valley-breweries-distilleries-member.asp?ID=1092).
American Hop Museum
Rich Tradition Unique History
22 S. B Street
Toppenish, WA 98948
The American Hop Museum, located in the heart of the nation's largest hop producing area, features striking exhibitions and intriguing displays, and a unique gift shop highlighting an array of items devoted to the history and future of hop cultivation. Since most of the hops grown in the U.S. are here in the Yakima Valley, few people outside the area have ever seen them (http://spiritsandhopstrail.com/yakima-valley-breweries-distilleries-member.asp?ID=71).
(www.americanhopmuseum.org/)
First to promote commercial hop growing east of the Cascades was Charles Carpenter who planted his first rootstock from his father’s farm in New York in 1868. Though fairly isolated, farmers found that hops were one crop they could raise profitably. YakimaValley growers shipped eighty bales of hops westward in 1876....In the early 1890’s more farms were planted making YakimaCounty the principal hop-growing area of the state. In an area known for its hot, dry, summers and abundant irrigation, crops flourished.
Toppenish and Moxee City became major market centers and have remained so to the present day. Production increase was steady from 1,129 acres in 1920 to 4,600 acres in 1940 and 32,000 today. After WW1, export demands far exceeded supply so new fields were planted allowing PacificCoast growers to dominate the market. During the 1940's a transition occurred from handpicking to the use of motorized portable machines. Later the industry transported hop vines and cones to stationary picking machines and driers. Yakima Valley produced 50% of U.S. totals in 1963, increasing to 70% in 1970. The YakimaValley's rich volcanic soil, Cascade mountain water, and long sun-filled days all contribute to prime growing conditions, now yielding 75% of the nation's hop production (www.americanhopmuseum.org/history.htm).
American Hop Museum
The rich history of the hop industry since the 1500s. Fascinating murals, displays, photos, implements, and a colonial brewery exhibit. Enjoy a wonderful gift shop on site 22 S. B Street, Toppenish, WA 98948, (509) 865-4677 (865-HOPS) (www.visityakima.com/yakima-valley-museums.asp).
The American Hop Museum, located in the heart of the nation's largest hop producing area, features striking exhibitions and intriguing displays, and a unique gift shop highlighting an array of items devoted to the history and future of hop cultivation. Since most of the hops grown in the U.S. are here in the Yakima Valley, few people outside the area have ever seen them.
The American Hop Museum is presently housed in a building that was originally opened as Trimble Brothers Creamery in 1917. The museum, began as a dream among area hop growers a number of years ago, but was abandoned until 1993, when Robert and Shirley Banta, a couple from Cooperstown, New York, arrived in the Yakima Valley to observe current hop production practices . The museum chronicles the history of the American Hop industry from its early days in the New England colonies to the rapid expansion into California and ultimately the Pacific Northwest. Hops were introduced by the first colonists, and were grown on Manhattan Island as early as 1607. The American Hop Museum is the nation's only hop museum dedicated to showcasing the history of the obscure perennial vine bearing the botanical name Humulus lupulus . We are a Non- Profit Organization, incorporated under I.R.C. 501 © (www.americanhopmuseum.org/)
Yakima Hop Candy
handcrafted quality candies infused with locally-grown hops
PO Box 2601
Yakima, WA 98907
Robin and Heather: We both grew up in the Yakima Valley, a region once well-known for its apples that has expanded its reputation for excellent wine grapes and hops. The Yakima Valley grows 77% of U.S. hops! Home of the Fresh Hop Ale Festival and the Moxee Hop Festival, hops are a big part of our community's identity.
We were experimenting with making a non-alcoholic hoppy beverage by infusing hops, juniper berries and orange peel in various drinks. One time I tried infusing ginger beer with hops and thought, "This would make a great candy!" It did. I had never even made hard candy before, but my research showed me that "cooking with hops is young as far as culinary trends go, but if recent trends are any indication, this baby’s got legs." Artful Pint. After many batches of burnt sugar, candy so bitter it made our eyes cross, and funny-looking lollipops, we have a candy to be proud of. I've always wanted to own my own business, always loved cooking, and I LOVE HOPS (www.yakimahopcandy.com/#!about/c1jo3).
I wanted to take a moment to help spread the word about the Yakima Hop Candy company, from America’s hop heartland — Yakima, WA.
Their handcrafted LolliHops are infused with locally sourced hops. Yakima Hop Candy’s menu of all-natural flavors include: Original, Lemon, Passion Fruit, Jasmine, Blood Orange, and many more.
When you look at the LolliHops, you can see flecks of green suspended in the body of the candy. Not sure if it was rendered hops from being melted in, or actual particles of the dried hop plant sprinkled into the mixture.
The candy definitely carried the aroma of hops. The Original flavor tasted very natural, and not overly sweet, which let the hop bitterness come through.
At certain points, I hit pockets of intensified hoppiness as I ate the candy. I enjoyed lemon better, since that LolliHops flavor featured more of a sour candy characteristic to its base (http://apintofhoppiness.com/hoppy-thoughts/yakima-hop-candy-lollihops/).
Heather Hadsel makes what is almost ordinary hard candy.
Sugar, corn syrup, water.
But just as her sweet treat reaches 300 degrees, she stirs in something not so ordinary: hops.
Hadsel concocts LolliHops, candy on a stick spiced with the product normally used to flavor beer, as the first product line for her startup, Yakima Hop Candy.
“It’s like a hoppy beer so it tastes a little bit like an IPA,” said Hadsel, 38, a craft beer enthusiast.
The John I. Haas company liked the idea so much that company officials arranged to exclusively supply the hop pellets that Hadsel uses in her recipe, which basically amounts to melting crushed hops in butter and stirring the mixture into hard candy.
“I think the idea is pretty cool,” said Santi Alejo, international sales administration coordinator for the Yakima hop giant. “Something new and innovative. That’s kind of what we’re all about here.”
John I. Haas, which has a full test brewery and laboratory at its River Road facility, invests heavily in research and development.
Through a friend of a friend, Alejo found Hadsel’s hop candy on Facebook and helped arrange the supply deal.
She’s not the first person in America to make hop candy. Hop Head Farms of Hickory Corners, Mich., sells B-Hoppy, a line of hard candies packaged similar to Jolly Ranchers.
But Hadsel, who grew up in Tampico, is the first in the Yakima Valley, which produces the vast majority of the nation’s hop supply (www.yakimaherald.com/home/2973401-8/lollihops-craft-beer-enthusiast-producing-hops-infused-candy) (http://kffm.com/lollihops-yakima-hop-candy/).
HoptownPizza
Since September of 2014, we have been going strong! We have found a semi-permanent spot in Downtown Yakima. Come find us at the old Track 29 parking lot [31 N. 1st Ave].
(www.hoptownpizza.com/)
Yakima Valley Hops
Distribute hops domestically and internationally.
702 North 1st Avenue, Suite D
Yakima, WA 98902
Located in the heart of hop country. We are a premium supplier of hops and hop products for the craft and home brew industries. Offering exclusive hop varieties, home brew supplies, and event venue. The one stop shop for everything craft brewing! (http://spiritsandhopstrail.com/yakima-valley-breweries-distilleries-member.asp?ID=1266)
Hops have been grown here in the Yakima Valley since Charles Carpenter brought roots from his father’s New York farm and planted them in 1868 just west of present-day Yakima. By the early 1900s hop crops stretched from Moxee to the Lower Yakima Valley, where today they continue to grow — in an area more widely known now as wine country.
In 2010, Washington state produced nearly 80 percent of the U.S. hop crop, most of which was grown on some 24,000 acres in the Yakima Valley. The industry — from the cultivated hop yards and processing plants to craft breweries that use them — attracts visitors from as far away as Asia, Europe and South America (www.seattletimes.com/outdoors/sniffing-out-yakima-valley-hops-beer-lovers-can-hail-plant-that-flavors-ale/?syndication=rss).
Many people have never seen a hop field and are unaware that the Yakima Valley contains approximately 75 percent of the total United States hop acreage, accounting for over 77 percent of the total hop production in the nation. USA Hops.org reports that most hop farms in Yakima are owned by third or fourth generation farmers who also commonly grow Red Sky Orchard’s beloved fruit and produce. Sophisticated, environmentally friendly irrigation techniques, combined with ideal growing conditions enable Washington State to consistently produce the finest hops in the world (https://redskyorchards.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/eastern-washington-where-beer-is-born/).
Charles Carpenter, is said to have begun hop farming in the Yakima Valley in 1872. Carpenter’s father, a settler in Constable, New York, supplied the cuttings. In 1876 Yakima sent 80 bales of hops west. At the beginning of 1890, hop farming spread in a southeasterly direction. Yakima County had become the most important hop producer in Washington State.
As in all US Hop regions, the period between 1920 and 1940, marked by Prohibition and Depression and a consequent overproduction, threatened the very existence of the planters in Washington State. Even so, the farmers of the Yakima Valley were able to produce hops at a lower cost than anywhere else in the world. Thanks to their open-mindedness they had converted to seedless hops at an early stage and had improved the quality of hop picking. By doing this they established the basis for the good reputation of “Yakima Hops”. These hops were exported throughout the world, particularly in the years 1939-1950.
The Yakima region has one further notable advantage: it is the only region in the world in which a farmer can plant cuttings in the spring and expect a full harvest in autumn. Because of this the farmers in the region can react more quickly to changes in the marketplace (http://spiritsandhopstrail.com/yakima-valley-hop-history.asp).
"…many would argue that the craft beer industry wouldn't be as it is today without one particular figure; Bert Grant. Bert isn't the only figure in craft beer, but many would argue that he was the one with most initial impact, founding Bert Grant's Real Ales in 1982 in the Opera House here in Yakima. Bert Grant, Grant's Real Ales and Yakima Brewing & Malting are no longer with us however, we are fortunate enough to use Bert's original boil kettle for some of our brewing." - From Yakima Craft Brewing (http://spiritsandhopstrail.com/yakima-valley-hop-history.asp)
In a way Yakima is coming full circle. It was the birthplace of the modern day microbrewery/pub scene when Bert Grant opened the first post-prohibition microbrewery in 1982. Sadly Grants Brewery Pub closed down some years later and it was not until 2007 that Yakima saw another brewery open when Yakima Craft began operations. It’s only natural that the brewpub scene would come back to Yakima. Our region grows some 75% or more of the hops in America, and much of it is processed in the City of Yakima. Likewise, with the vast quantities of wine grape and fruit production the Yakima Valley it’s fitting that more wineries and distilleries are popping up around town.
These are among the reasons why we created the Spirits and Hops Trail in the summer of 2013 (https://spiritsandhops.wordpress.com/tag/yakima-valley-hop-farms/).
Craft beer boom has brewers scrambling for hops (Bo McMillan, Wednesday, 16 Jul 2014 | 11:30 AM ET, CNBC) Hops need to be planted at least one to two years ahead of actually making their way to brewers, because growers need time to plant and cultivate the necessary acreage. Those deals are handled by contract between brewers and growers.
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Surging demand forces small brewers, especially entrepreneurs just entering the booming craft beer business, to the spot market to fulfill some of their needs. But the spot market accounts for only about 10 percent of the total harvest—and those prices are spiking even more than contract prices. With nearly 400 new brewers entering the craft market in 2013 alone, competition for those spot hops can get fierce.
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Contract hops are favored by both brewers and growers because they reduce volatility in a market that historically has fluctuated a great deal.
"There won't be much hops, if any, on the spot market. So if there is anything on the spot market, it will be a relatively higher price. Especially with people contracting for growth," said Bryan Bechard, managing director of the Country Malt Group.
The most volatile of these varieties are the hops favored for IPAs: proprietary multi-use varieties such as Citra.
(www.cnbc.com/id/101834531).
Hop Nation Brewing Company (HNBC) is a new brewery in mid-development by Master Brewer Ben Grossman. What separates this brewery from 99.9% of the others is focusing on Washington agricultural products, specifically Yakima Valley Hops and Columbia Valley grain, and their relationship to award winning beer. HNBC will provide truly unique beers and fun experiences in a historic building nearly a century old. The historic building located at 31 N 1st Ave. in the Commercial Business District (CBD) of Yakima, Wa. will also be used for a hop, beer and wine analytical laboratory testing (www.hopnation.us/).
The Washington State Hop industry, nestled at the base of the Cascade mountain range in the Yakima Valley, is home to one of the most fertile and productive growing regions in the World. The desert like conditions of the area coupled with the abundant irrigation provided by the Yakima River Watershed create an ideal environment to produce hops. With its long, sunny days, the Yakima Valley is one of the few areas of the World where new plantings of hops in the spring have the ability to produce a full crop in the first year.
The Yakima Valley contains approximately 75 percent of the total United States hop acreage, with an average farm size of 450 acres (182 hectares) accounting for over 77 percent of the total United States hop crop. Most hop farms in Washington are third or fourth generation family operations that have now diversified into other crops as well. Most hop growers also grow fruit, but some grow mint, grapes and even row crops. Typically, a Washington hop grower will raise a combination of both aroma and alpha variety hops. The majority of the hops produced in Washington however are alpha and super alpha varieties. As we begin the 21st century, important Washington aroma varieties include Willamette, Cascade, and Mt. Hood. Alpha varieties include Columbus/Tomahawk, Zeus, Nugget, and Galena, which when combined account for over half of the total Washington hop acreage.
In the State of Washington hops are only grown commercially in the Yakima Valley. However, within this valley there are three distinct growing areas, the Moxee Valley, the Yakama Indian Reservation, and the Lower Yakima Valley. Each of these areas, while no more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) apart, possess unique growing conditions....The Yakima Valley of Washington State is one of the most important hop growing regions in the world. Approximately two-thirds of the hops produced in the Yakima Valley are exported to countries all over the globe (www.usahops.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=hop_farming&pageID=13) (http://www.usahops.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=hop_info&pageID=1).
Yakima Valley Hops Have the Largest Hop Selections on the Net, Highest Quality of Hops, and Fast Shipping. Located in the heart of Hop Country - Yakima Valley (Where 70% of all domestic hops are produced). All of our hops are packaged in Mylar foils with resealable zip locks (www.yakimavalleyhops.com/).
For those brewers who have not been to YakimaValleyHops.com, you are severely missing out. YVH is a legit hops super store. In fact, I’d argue that there isn’t a shop out there with a larger variety. At any given time, they probably have around 40 varieties of domestic hops and around 30 varieties of imported hops to choose from. This provided us with an amazing selection of hop varieties to choose from for our project (http://csibrewers.org/content/?p=1611).
Welcome to Puterbaugh Farms. Four generations of quality grown hops sold directly from our family to yours (www.hopsdirect.com/). Puterbaugh Farms is a fourth generation hop farming family that has been growing hops in the fertile Yakima Valley of Washington State since the 1930’s. The family forefathers migrated from France to Canada, and then made the move to the present farm site in Mabton, Washington.
Today Stacy, along with his family, works the 800 acre farm. Of those 800 acres, 700 acres are dedicated to hops, with the remaining acres growing apples, grapes, raspberries, corn & pumpkins
(www.hopsdirect.com/about/).
Yakima Chief can guarantee our exclusive product quality because our professional staff operate all areas of production, technical support, sales and logistics. The hops go directly from our farms to our storage facilities and quality is monitored and documented throughout processing into pellets and extracts. We take total responsibility for the hops from our farms to your brewery (http://yakimachief.com/). Yakima Chief, Inc. was founded by hop growing families, some of them growing hops in the YakimaValley for more than 130 years. These family farms joined together to build an organization which would market their hop products direct to brewers worldwide.
Yakima Chief now owns and operates nine cold storage warehouses in the Yakima Valley, in addition to contract warehousing worldwide. Yakima Chief’s pelleting plant is one of the largest, most advanced in the world. In 1999, an important link to providing all of our products direct was completed. Our state-of-the-art CO2 extraction facility enables us to provide extracts to brewers’ specifications, under the most stringent quality controls, including ISO 9001 Quality Management System certification (http://yakimachief.com/index.php/aboutus/general/history/).
Select Botanicals Group, LLC
SBG was started in the late 1980’s as “Yakima Chief Ranches” by the Carpenter, Smith, and Perrault families under the direction of the late Charles “Chuck” Zimmerman. Initial breeding results were fruitful, leading to the selection of Ahtanum™ brand YCR-1, Palisade® brand YCR-4, Warrior® brand YCR-5, and Simcoe® brand YCR 14.
John I Haas, Inc
John I. Haas, Inc. was founded in 1914. The company owns and operates its own hop farms, warehouses, pellet and extraction plants as well as isomerization facilities in the northwestern United States. The John I Haas breeding program has released several varieties, including Millennium and Chelan.
By bringing these breeding programs together, HBC can take advantage of increased efficiencies through consolidation of facilities, germplasm, knowledge and innovation
(www.hopbreeding.com/).
Hops are an essential raw material in beer production as they provide bitterness and aroma to the beer but also contribute to foam and microbiological stability. They are an agronomical niche product grown only in few areas around the world (www.barthhaasgroup.com/hopsacademy/en/the-curriculum/hops). Brewers can have access to a large variety of traditional and advanced hop products. What possibilities do these products offer and what should the brewer observe? Which product is most suitable for a specific application and why? How much should be added, where and how? Which are the most important chemical reactions of hops in brewing and how can you take advantage of them? Or should they rather be avoided? (www.barthhaasgroup.com/hopsacademy/en/the-curriculum/hops-in-brewing)
Segal Ranch is a third-generation, family hop farm widely known among craft brewers for estate-quality hops and a commitment to innovation in hop growing. We are located in the Yakima Valley in Washington State, a legendary terroir for hop cultivation (www.segalranch.com/bios-segalranch).
GEORGE SEGAL, SR. established a small hop ranch in Malone, New York, in 1941. At the age of 16, George Segal grows a moustache to add years to his teenage visage and heads to New York City to seek his fortune in the wholesale food business. While selling food products to mom and pop stores in NYC during Prohibition, Segal notices small packages of hops being sold for home brewing. This piques his interest the hops business.
Any entrepreneur will tell you that timing is everything. Our grandfather recognized a unique market opportunity created by two forces: the growing demand for hops after the repeal of Prohibition in the US and the shortage of hops resulting from WWII-ravaged Europe. On this entrepreneurial hunch, George Segal establishes a 100-acre hop ranch in Malone, New York. Soon after, Segal establishes a 100-acre hop farm in Grandview, Washington, creating a foothold in the Yakima Valley.
1959: After 18 years of cultivating hops successfully in upstate New York, Segal Ranch is hit by a blight that decimates the crop and along with it, the entire New York-based hop growing industry. The Yakima Valley in the State of Washington becomes the new base of operations for Segal Ranch, where the dry climate and the ability to irrigate are the ideal terroir for the cultivation of hops (www.segalranch.com/history-segalranch).
JOHN SEGAL, SR.
George Segal’s second son, John, took over the family business in 1950. John was a passionate advocate for American-grown hops and the development of new hop varieties. Segal pioneered the commercial cultivation of the Cascade hop, now a mainstay of breweries across America and a favorite varietal among craft brewers. Today, High-Oil Cascades grown on the Segal Ranch are a sought-after ingredient in many fine craft-brewed ales.
1968: At a time when European-grown hops were considered superior in the US market, John Segal is a passionate advocate for American-grown hops and the development of new hop varieties. Working with Chuck Zimmerman, a USDA hop research scientist at Washington State University's research station in Prosser, WA, Segal agrees to plant an experimental, new aroma variety, 56013. Segal believes passionately that 56013 has the potential to compete with European aroma hops. Despite the lack of interest in the variety among US brewers, he continues to cultivate 56013.
1972: Coors Brewery places the first order for 56013, now called Cascade. Segal sells one million roots to US hop growers to establish the variety. The Cascade hop is launched.
1975: Fritz Maytag launches Anchor Steam's Liberty Ale with Segal Ranch Cascade hops, the first IPA brewed in America after Prohibition and the first American single-hop ale and dry-hopped ale (www.segalranch.com/history-segalranch).
Hop Research Council...
The Hop Research Council is a non-profit organization that funds and directs hop research to benefit the U.S. hop industry. Members include domestic and international brewers, hop dealers, and hop grower organizations.
The Council was established in 1979 by a group of hop industry members that believed in the benefit of a united hop research effort. Today, the original goal remains true. Brewers, Dealers, and Growers work together to fund and direct hop research, ensuring a bright future for the U.S. hop industry.
2015 Members
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Boston Beer Company
Brewers Association
Craft Brew Alliance
Hollingbery and Son, Inc.
Idaho Hop Commission
John I. Haas, Inc.
Kalsec
MillerCoors, LLC
New Belgiu, Brewing Company
Odell Brewing Company
Oregon Hop Commission
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
S.S. Steiner, Inc.
Stone Brewing Company
Suntory, Ltd.
Washington Hop Commission
Yakima Chief HopUnion LLC
(www.usahops.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=research&pageID=1)
Typisch dat AB/InBev wordt uitgeschreven als Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Our family’s farm, B.T. Loftus Ranches, is one of the longest running hop farms in the Yakima Valley. In 1920, our family moved to Moxee in pursuit of work on the railroad and began farming a variety of crops and livestock. Twelve years later, the first five-acre hop field was established. Now, we are in our fourth-generation of family ownership, harvesting close to 900 acres of hops each year.
In April 2013, we opened the doors to Bale Breaker Brewing Company
(https://spiritsandhops.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/a-brewery-on-a-hop-farm/). While the brewery is located in their family’s hop field #41, Bale Breaker Brewing Company is operated as a separate entity from all farming operations. The family’s farm, B.T. Loftus Ranches, is now in its fourth-generation of family ownership, with its daily operations managed by Patrick Smith and his parents Mike & Cheryl Smith.
About B.T. Loftus Ranches Inc: Established in 1932, B.T. Loftus Ranches Inc. is one of the Yakima Valley’s longest running hop farms. In 1920, the Loftus family moved to Moxee in pursuit of work on the railroad and began farming a variety of crops and livestock. Twelve years later, B.T. and Leota Loftus, great-grandparents of Patrick, Meghann, and Kevin, established the family’s first five-acre hop farm. The farm is now involved with Select Botanicals Group and the Hop Breeding Company, growing 9 different varieties such as Cascade, Simcoe®, Citra®, and Mosaic®. Loftus Ranches is one of the largest growers for the craft beer industry, valuing quality, sustainability and innovation. They are dedicated to their craft and look forward to growing varieties that meet the needs of microbrewers for many years to come (www.balebreaker.com/about/).
De verschillende bedrijven verkopen hop in verschillende vormen en variëteiten, maar ook mout en brouwbenodigheden:
=Benodigheden:
- (gerst en tarwe e.d.)mout
- (ascorbine)zuur
- (eiken)houtsnippers
- amylase enzymen
- bentoniet
- sinaasappelschil en andere kruiden
- sanitatie (reinigen en ontsmetten)
- kroonkurken
- hopzakjes
- watersloten
= Diversen
- bierkoelers
- petten
- zeep
- shirts
= Hoprhizomes (hopscheuten)
= Hopextracten en olie
= Hopbellen (blad)
= Hoppellets
If you adore brews and beer, head to the Yakima Valley in early October for the Fresh Hop Ale Festival (www.freshhopalefestival.com), which showcases beers produced with fresh Yakima Valley hops. To qualify for the festival the beers must be produced with Yakima Valley hops that were picked no longer than 24 hours prior to brewing (www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/washington/yakima-valley/travel-tips-and-articles/77796).
Al dat hopgebeuren in Yakima verklaart de smaak in Yakima Red...
Meantime Yakima Red (4,10%)
Met Britse en Duitse mouten en vijf Amerikaanse hopsoorten is dit fruitige en hoppige bier van Meantime gebrouwen. Mooie hinten van fruit en citrus met een bescheiden bittertje (www.bierenzo.nl/meantime-yakima-red, https://bierhut.com/meantime-yakima-red.html).
YAKIMA RED (4.1% ABV)
Meantime Yakima Red is brewed with British and German malts to give a deep ruby colour and medium to full body. The addition of five varieties of US hop from the Yakima Valley in Washington State imparts spectacular fruit and citrus flavours with a restrained bitterness. Yakima Red is 4.1% ABV and delivers all the flavour and character you come to expect from Meantime's variety of craft beer styles (www.meantimebrewing.com/our-beers/beer/yakima-red/).
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
First appeared as a draught special in March/April 2011.
This is not the same beer as the Marks & Spencer Greenwich Red Ale. They are similar recipes, but are not the same. They use completely different hops and malts. Brewed with 5 hop varieties from the Yakima Valley, Washington State (www.ratebeer.com/beer/meantime-yakima-red/141838/) (http://hippobeers.co.uk/?wpsc-product=meantime-yakima-red).
Hallstein (219) - Skogn, NORWAY - APR 14, 2015
Pours a clear dark red with a small, but nice head. Aroma has a surprising amount of complexity for such a low ABV. Slight roastiness, sweet malty caramel, and some slight floral/herbal hoppiness. Flavor is quite good, with a nice sweet caramely malty backbone. Some slight notes of wort, with the malt at the forefront. Hops are slightly hidden. Carbonation and mouthfeel are well suited to the beer. Not an overly bitter finish. But nicely balanced (www.ratebeer.com/beer/meantime-yakima-red/141838/).
Majek (432) - Ząbki, POLAND - APR 4, 2015
Amber colour with medium stable head. Medium intensive aroma of malts, herbs, grassy and slightly citrus background. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. Medium carbonation. Medium body. Quite rich of flavours and nice balanced IPA (www.ratebeer.com/beer/meantime-yakima-red/141838/).
Bosskie (509) - NETHERLANDS - MAR 29, 2015
Ruby red beer, crystal clear with gentle bubbling, foamy white head. Smell is malty, with lots of cereals, white pepper and some subtle hoppy bitterness. Subtle resin, cottage cheese, yoghurt. Maybe some apples. Taste is full and refreshing. Bitter with a watery finish, lightly astringent (www.ratebeer.com/beer/meantime-yakima-red/141838/).
Nou, nou, citrus, caramel, mout, witte peper (?), cottage cheese en yoghurt (?), appels? Ik kon het niet herkennen... maar ondertussen...