Fresh Hops
"I mean by fresh hops, new ones,
which have been recently dried."
--- ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1858
[ABOVE] At the time of this ad, Brooklyn's Edelbrew Brewing Co.owned the former Oneida Chief hop farm in upstate New York near Bridgewater (southern Oneida county), which they renamed Edelbrew Valley Hop Ranch and advertised as
"The largest hop plantation in the East"
More about "Edelbrew" at
[ABOVE] Dealer's ads for hops, including suggestions for them to be used for non-brewing purposes.
[BELOW] 3/4 of a century later, the first "craft brewery" in the US attempts the same.
A 1977 Schlitz ad "answers" the above comment:
"It is generally conceded by investigators that fresh, undried, fully matured hops contain the bitter resins and essential oil in their unchanged natural conditions as metabolized by the growing plants. Obviously it is impractical to use fresh undried hops in brewing. They must be dried enough in preparation for market so that they can be shipped and stored without spoiling."
"Some Studies Of The Improvement of Quality Of Domestic Hops"
AMERICAN BREWER Magazine, October 1936
Frank Rabak - Assoc. Biochemist, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Undried hops were generally referred to as
Green Hops:
