Touring the Brewery Tasting Room

cool awesome so just a just a beautiful plant a really beautiful plant and it's kind of sticky almost tobacco's kind of sticky too if you've never handled tobacco and there's also some other herbals that are popular in Colorado and California that are sticky too so similar to those stickiness I guess and also too if you peel and this is called a bond with the bean out of V okay like a vine even though it looks like a vine it's called a bond and the bond has got little if you feel it it's like kind of like a little prickly so there's no tears don't fool with it no animal really eats them so we don't even have to worry about really fencing them in so that's why you know you know the deer come through here but they just need a trace and clover and stuff that's here they don't fool with these well guys I hope you learned a little bit about hops here and I hope you learned a little bit about growing hops we're gonna talk a little bit about the soil and the pH and the drainage so you have an irrigation system here we use an eighth inch steel line here we use it also for tie off so we can tie our strings up and also on the top but we also use this to connect the drip line system into now every year you cut the vines down to the ground and you mulch it in is that right yep man into the end of the season we'll cut them all the way to the ground I mean right to the ground we like to put some nutrients here and we'll try to put so these guys like a lot of nitrogen okay so we'll put some nitrogen based fertilizer in have used rabbit manure we've used actually llama manure from one of the farms to try that but we did the rabbit seemed to work really well and then we'll cover them with mulch and then in the spring they'll start popping out let them grow about a foot to 18 inches that first growth we want to get rid of we cut them back down again and then they really come out those are the ones that we actually train and you have to train them so you actually have to start them in a clockwise motion once you start them on a string then they know what to do and they take off gotcha so when I first came out I looked at the hops here and I saw how they were climbing up these strings and this is a coconut bass string as it was climbing up the string it seemed that every one of them was going in a clockwise motion so you know I asked him are they right-handed or left-handed hops or something like that is there you know but he's he said he has to train them all the way up