Discussing Hop Growth and Types

tell me a little bit about what you got going here these are hops how long have they been established what do you have here tell me about it well these are cascade and they're about four years old we started the field about four years ago we started as a hobby got some rhizomes we planted them they came up and it was something that was new to the area so we were like well let's let's we've got some land and didn't know what to do with it and it's like let's try some and see so these are cascades like I said there's about over hundreds of our variety different varieties of hops and we're just finding out you know which ones will grow in the area which ones won't they're you know worldwide so different areas in the world have different types of hops and that's what actually makes different types of beer okay and you were telling me that hops and IPA thing the India Pale Ale which is like the type of beer that everybody likes right now came about in in the old days back when they shipped beer from England to India is that right correct they found that hops is also a preservative not only does it provide the veterans for the IPAs but it also the lower alpha is also provide flavoring and aroma to so many types of beers also the IPAs came about when the Europeans were shipping beer to India and the the Asian countries and they put extra hops in there to preserve the beer so that would be you know drinkable when they got there of course it became bitter it was really an IPA that's where IPA Indian Pale Ale that's where that comes from so that was pretty interesting tidbit on a little beer history that I never knew about now is it okay if I pick one of these pick pick pick one of these that one that'd be the best and you can open them up these pops have an oil in them the oils called Lu pium you can actually see that I'll let you know that rule show that up in there so that's actually what that yellow it's a yellow it's an oil actually gotcha and the some types have a higher concentrate of that and that's where you get your bit rings for your IPA others don't have a higher out there you know around four or five alpha ok those right there you use them for bittering I mean for aroma and flavorings so this stuff is really really sticky guys and I don't know if you can see it but there's like it's like pollens like a yellow sticky pollen and hops are remember the cannabis they only in fact all these ladies out here females yeah so all these are females cool so if you…