Even if you never plan on using them to make homemade beer, hops (Humulus lupulus) create beautiful living fences. For thousands of years, hops have been cultivated across the Northern Hemisphere and ...

Of the four main ingredients used to brew beer, hops get the most fanfare — and why not? Humulus Lupulus is a beautiful plant, distinctive in shape and grown for a singular, noble purpose: to make ...

Hops – used to flavour beer – are the female flower of the plant in the hemp family, Humulus lupulus. It’s a perennial, herbaceous vine more commonly farmed in cool climates, including high-country ...

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