Blog About Slovenian and Styrian Hops
Nov
Making a hop wreath
Since this years hop season is almost over and the Advent time has already started, it is time to make some hop wreaths to delightfully decorate our homes. We made a beautiful aromatic hop wreath from dried hop cones. This year we used Styrian Aurora hops that are a tad smaller and easier to work wi... READ THE FULL STORY
Sep
Packing this year’s harvest
Like all things come to an end so did this years harvest of our Styrian hops. We packed our produce into RB 60 bales and store them in our special warehouse. We put on the certificates and marked and weigh them. We also send samples to be analysed for the alpha acids and other characteristics.
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Sep
Hops are looking gorgeous!
This summer proved out to be quite hard for growing hops. We had to deal with severe drought and very high temperatures several week in a row without a single drop of rain. Without appropriate irrigation plan and all needed assets hops growing can turn the wrong way very quickly.We were water... READ THE FULL STORY
Aug
2015 Harvest has just started
It's 28th of August and we have officially started this year's Styrian hops harvest. This summer we had quite powerful sun and high temperatures but we managed to water the fields just enough to prevent drought. Despite continuous watering and nourishing the plants, hops focused more on survival t... READ THE FULL STORY
Aug
Baby hops in kindergarten
This year in April 2015 we have planted new Styrian Celeia (also known as Styrian Golding) seedlings because it was necessary to replace the old ones with new. Some of them were more than 25 years old.We started of by preparing the fresh grounds on the field and then planting the seedling s... READ THE FULL STORY
