Rogue Hops On The Rise

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INDEPENDENCE, OR, June 25, 2010 – Our hops are steadily climbing the coconut twine at Chatoe Rogue.  Due to the heavy rains and cool temperatures our bines are growing low and slow this summer.  We expect a smaller harvest and that our hops will have lower alphas (less acidic) at harvest this season.  Typically the bines are 3/4 up the twine to the overhead cable and right now they are just above the half-way point.

Over the next month we expect the bines to hit their peak growing rate (up to a foot a day) and we will start flagging and culling males (to keep their seeds out) later this month.Watch them grow on our webcam:  http://www.rogue.com/locations/locations.php.

Come visit the hopyard. The Chatoe is open Wednesdays through Fridays from 4-9, Saturdays 11-9, and Sundays 11-6.  Rogue’s five-bedroom, 100-year old farm house, the Hop in Bed is filling up fast this summer.  If you want to spend the night make your reservations soon.  

Rogue Farms has the Chatoe Rogue tasting room and 42 acres of hops at our hopyard in Independence, OR.

For more information on Rogue Farms, tours, to reserve the Hop in Bed, or Rogue’s Grow Your Own revolution, contact the Rogue Department of Agriculture at 503.241.3800, or email hopfarm@rogue.com, or go to rogue.com.

The Rogue Nation remains committed to saving the terroir of Oregon Hops and Barley, one acre at a time, by growing its own.