Two or three most strongest hop sprouts are trained clockwised onto wire. The other hop sprouts are thrown away. As much as close to the sprout is then hop wire fixed.

Hops is grown on hop wire during June and July. The plant must be protected against pests like mites, red spiders or beetles and against diseases like powdy and downy mildew.

The green hop cones are analyzed for alpha acids content at the beginning of August. Is possible to state the beginning of harvest according the growth of this value. Usually is harvest running in second half of August and during September. Rebes are thrown away from the hopgardens and single cones are picked on the picking machineries.  

Hops are dried in the chamber or belt kilning machineries on the moisture around 10%. Then is pressed into rectangular bales with weight around 50-55 kg. All bales must be transported within 48 hours into air-conditioned warehouse with constant temperature 2-4 C.

Dried hops are processed into double-pressed rectangular bales, hop pucks, pellets T90 or T45 according requests of different customers. Ready products are again placed into air-conditioned warehouse until dispatch.

Many years of experiences has shown us where source the best hops. We source the hops from company CHMEL and furthermore from more than thirty independent growers from Saaz, Auscha and Trschitz growing regions.

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