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Next time you sip on a deliciously hoppy ale, you may want to take a moment to reflect on the men who made it all possible. Or at least that's what the Discovery Channel might have us believe.News out of Yakima, Washington, via the Yakima Herald-Republic, is that Mike Rowe and the rest of the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs crew visited a hops processor in the area to film a forthcoming episode of the show. According to the article "Rowe spent two days picking and inspecting hops, working the kilns that dry the hops and making bales." Hops, a flower that helps give beer its distinct flavor, seems like a topical choice. Rising hops' prices, the result of a global hops shortage, has received significant media coverage.
While picking hops certainly doesn't sound like much fun, I'm yet to be convinced how "dirty" the job actually is. Though, truth be told, I'd probably be more apt to watch a Dirty Jobs episode about beer over filthier fare simply because it's a topic I enjoy (unlike, say, cleaning my toilet).
However, don't fire up your DVR quite yet: The episode probably won't be airing until between January and October of next year.
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9-10-2008 @12:22PM Tamara Kaye Sellman said... I agree, it's not all that dirty a job. My husband homebrews. Any complaints from me? No, the smell of the cooking grain is delicious and the leftover cooked grain makes an excellent mulch or compost activator. Still, the hop processing can't be all that much different from other forms of harvesting, so I guess that would be the dirty part. At any rate, it would definitely be a great show to watch.
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9-11-2008 @5:32PM beerorkid said... Hops get their flavor and bittering abilities from the lupilun glands that contain really sticky oils and resins.
I brewed professionally for 7 years and when you reach into a bag full of fresh dried hops the "tar" sticks to you like glue. It needs to be scrubbed off or it will leave a sticky residue that will grab dirt from anything you touch.
It smells wonderful though.
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9-11-2008 @5:35PM Mike Pomranz said... Thanks for the comment, beerorkid. Sounds like I need to get off my blogging high horse and get down and dirty with a bag of hops!
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