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List of hop varieties. Hallertau hop cone. This is a list of varieties of hop ( Humulus lupulus ). As there are male and female plants, the flowers (cones) of the female plant are fertilized by the pollen of the male flowers with the result that the female flowers form seeds. These seeds are eaten by birds and hence spread over vast distances.
Humulus lupulus, the common hop or hops, is a species of flowering plant in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to West Asia, Europe and North America. It is a perennial, herbaceous climbing plant which sends up new shoots in early spring and dies back to a cold-hardy rhizome in autumn. [2] It is dioecious (having separate male and female plants).
Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, [ 1][ 2] into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. [ 3] It is a children's game that can be played with several players or alone. [ 4]
Hops. Hop flower in a hop yard in the Hallertau, Germany. Cross-section drawing of a hop. Fully grown hops bines ready for harvest on the Yakama Indian Reservation. Humulus on a house. Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant Humulus lupulus, [1] a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. [2]
Oast house. An oast, oast house (or oasthouse) or hop kiln is a building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process. Oast houses can be found in most hop-growing (and former hop-growing) areas, and are often good examples of agricultural vernacular architecture. Many redundant oast houses have been converted into houses.
An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...
Cascade is a cultivar of hops developed in the USDA breeding program at Oregon State University by Dr. Stanley Nelson Brooks and Jack Horner. Developed during the 1960s, it was released as an American aroma variety in 1971. It originated from an open seed collection in 1956, including English Fuggle, Russian Serebrianka, and an unspecified male ...
The United States of America is the world's largest producer of hops, the flowers of female Humulus lupulus plants. [1] The primary use of hops grown in the United States is in brewing. In 2019, the U.S. accounted for 40% of world hop production and 39% of world hop acreage. [1]