Exploring the Brewing Facility

he has to train them all the way up these vines and you're at about 20 feet high at the high point in the hops here so really cool really cool we'll go in and we'll talk about the brewery and the brew area here in just a second I hope you guys are learning stuff so tell me a little bit about the infrastructure that we've got here for the hops well the infrastructure on the hops the hops grow about 18 to 20 feet tall we do a wide system or V system so that the it gives you a little bit better airflow it hopes hopefully it mediates the downy powdery mildew a little bit better so it kind of airs them out a little bit you get them dried a little bit quicker with air coming through them also this the we use a small eighth inch gauge on the bottom we use it we taught use it for tire off for our strings and we also use it for our drip irrigation we use a coconut core to hold the weight of the hops so all natural string that's very very tough yeah I'm gonna walk you around here a little bit and we'll talk to you as I walk and show you the infrastructure that we have here growing hops take some infrastructure you've probably got somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000 worth of infrastructure here on a third of an acre of hops so it takes some infrastructure imagine if you're gonna do it on a 50 acre plot you're gonna have some money in this and you're gonna have some time in it and these guys it's just the two of them is just a man and his wife and it keeps them busy real busy we have had volunteers that's helped us throughout the season for harvesting we had about 25 people come out this is a small enough field where we can hand harvest so we can come and pick them by hand bigger fields anything over probably a third acre you know when you get into a half acres and all that they also make have a machine that will actually they'll actually harvest them it actually pulls the cones off of the vine and drops them in a hopper so it's all automated so you don't have to do the have you just cut them down lay them in this machine and it'll actually it's it's a harvester cool now we put him on the spot here we just stopped by and said hey you won't talk about your hops on YouTube sure so guys if you like this kind of stuff be sure you pound that like button let me know I like this stuff because we're to be going to visit a bunch of farms we have a little surprise for you we're calling it farm stock 2018 and we're going to be stopping at several farms all over the country…