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Some breweries will use hops straight off the bine for a beer known as a harvest, or wet hop brew.

While the brewers can use pelletized hops year-round, now is the season where they can actually get them fresh off the bine - which was what both Upland and Dean prefer.

While the brewers can use pelletized hops year-round, now is the season where they can actually get them fresh off the bine — which was what both Upland and Dean prefer.

Hop vines — called “bines” — grow vertically on trellises up to 40 feet high, producing cones and flowers that are harvested in August.

In Bavaria’s Holledau region endless rows of hop bines still undulate through the hills as they have for centuries; but today they share the south-facing slopes with solar panels.