Hops

Hops are the flowers of the hop plant, which are in the humulus genus. Hops look like little cones, and are used to make beer. They give the beer a bitter flavor. They have been used to make beer for many centuries, and were used by the Romans in the Roman Empire.

Hops
File:Humulus.jpg
Common Hop plant (Humulus lupulus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Cannabaceae
Genus:	Humulus L.
Species
Humulus lupulus L. Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc. Humulus yunnanensis Hu

Hops Media

• Humulus Lupulus Hopfendolde-mit-hopfengarten.jpg

  Hop flower in a hop yard in the Hallertau, Germany

• Cross-section of hop cone.svg

  Cross-section drawing of a hop

• Fully grown hops bines ready for harvest on the Yakama Indian Reservation

• Decorative Hops.jpg

  hops on a house

• Yakima-Valley-Hop-Yard.jpg

  Early season hop growth in a hop yard in the Yakima River Valley of Washington with Mount Adams in the distance

• Chmelnice.jpg

  A superstructure of overhead wires supports strings that in turn support bines.

• Macro shot of lupulin on a hop's cone

• Kratky, Frantisek - Sklizen chmele (ca 1898).jpg

  Hops harvest in the Kingdom of Bohemia (1898)

• NMA.0063746 Humleplockning mellan Vånga och Näsum.jpg

  Hops harvest in Skåne, Sweden, in 1937

• Indian hop pickers, Puget Sound region, Washington, ca 1893 (LAROCHE 78).jpeg

  Puget Sound region, Washington, c. 1893