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Watch the Oast House Hop Farm 2014 harvest

September 25, 2014Keith Gribbins

The Oast House Hop Farm is a start-up ag operation in central New Jersey dedicated to providing quality organic hops to craft breweries, utilizing sustainable farming practices. It’s a homegrown friends and family operation that exudes all of craft’s credos of community and nature. Oast House is the culmination of three friends who are avid craft brewers themselves (we’ll call them Beau, Marylu and Art). The trio decided to breathe new life into New Jersey’s local craft industry by building a small scale production facility providing fresh, locally grown hops to consumers in the central Jersey area.

Although there are 12 acres waiting to be farmed, the trio has built a small ¼-acre hop yard using as much existing material on the property as possible — trellises using naturally rot-resistant locust trees from the farm and irrigation from a natural spring-fed pond on the property, as well as collections in rain barrels. Of course, Oast House just harvested its hops, and in the video above, Beau Byrtus talks about the 2014 crop of Chinook, Cascade, Nugget and Columbus and who’s using the Jersey-fresh hops from this third harvest year. These hops are actually handpicked, and who doesn’t want handpicked hops in their beer?

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  1. Kathy Volpone Madison says

    September 25, 2014 at 12:37 pm

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  2. OastHouseHops says

    September 25, 2014 at 11:14 am

    The Craft Brewing Business, an online magazine, did an article on the Oast House! Check it out!… http://t.co/Fe83v7WALf

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  3. KevnAle says

    September 25, 2014 at 11:13 am

    RT @CraftBrewingBiz: Watch the Oast House Hop Farm 2014 harvest. We really dig what these guys do @OastHouseHops http://t.co/Eu4B06D3mE

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  4. crsimp01 says

    September 25, 2014 at 11:03 am

    Watch the Oast House Hop Farm 2014 harvest http://t.co/7hT5Xt8ebc via @craftbrewingbiz

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  5. OastHouseHops says

    September 25, 2014 at 10:44 am

    @CraftBrewingBiz thank you!! Love it!!

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  6. MillwallFCEO says

    September 25, 2014 at 10:34 am

    RT @CraftBrewingBiz: Watch the Oast House Hop Farm 2014 harvest. We really dig what these guys do @OastHouseHops http://t.co/Eu4B06D3mE

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