Best Climate for Hops

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Around 80% of hops are cultivated in the Pacific Northwest. Does this mean you have no chance of success in a different climate? Beau Bromley of Sierra Nevada comes on to share his thoughts. Connect With Beau Bromley: Beau Bromley is the Hops Technician at Sierra Nevada Brewery up in Chico, CA. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone, welcome, welcome to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:17.8	We are joined again by Bob Romley.
0:20.3	He's the hops technician at Sierra Nevada Brewery up in Chico, California.
0:24.6	So we talked a little bit about hops in general.
0:27.6	What are they?
0:28.6	How does this plant grow?
0:29.8	As well as a couple of different cultivars, but Bob, you were saying that there's a specific
0:34.2	region of the country where most of the hops are grown, right?
0:38.7	Yeah, that's correct.
0:42.0	I don't know the exact percentage, but it's something like 80, maybe 90% of our nation's
0:47.7	hops are grown in the Pacific Northwest, particularly the Yakima Valley in Washington.
0:56.4	It's a perfect spot, not too hot, not too cold.
1:00.8	So yeah, that's where most of our hops nationwide come from.
1:04.5	Okay.
1:05.5	And why is it that they like that particular area climate-wise?
1:08.4	What are the conditions that they're really thriving in?
1:12.5	Well, the Yakima Valley there, it's on the side of a mountain range that doesn't get.
1:18.6	The valley itself is a little bit drier, so hops are real susceptible to different
1:26.3	fungus, particularly powdery mildew and downy mildew.
1:30.6	In the Pacific Northwest, getting a lot of rain, you'll have more problems with that.
1:35.2	Well, the Yakima Valley is a little bit drier, so it kind of prevents from maget go, a
1:42.2	little prevention there from having two wetter soils.
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