HOPS AND BEER
Jack Schmidling Productions, Inc.
Marengo Illinois
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Most folks know that hops is used in beer but brewers aside, few people know what it really is or why.
Hops is to beer what lemon is to lemon aid. It is a bittering ingredient without which, beer would be cloyingly sweet.
These two bines* growing on our shop wall, provide more than enough hops for the100 or so gallons of beer we make each year.