Hops
Timeline
736 | Earliest written record of the cultivation of hops, describes a hop garden near Geisenfeld in the Hallertau region of Germany. | |
9th - 12th centuries | European hops cultivation centered around Bohemia, Slovenia and Bavaria. | |
1067 | The oldest surviving written record of the use of hops in beer is by Abbess Hildegarde of St. Ruprechtsberg: "If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops." | |
early 16th century | Hops are introduced to British beers. | |
1629 | The first hops garden was in production in America, on Manhatten. | |
1750s | Hops cultivation had spread to Louisiana in America. | |
end of the 18th century | New England was well suited to hops cultivation, and by the end of the 18th century, hops was being exported from Massachusettes to France and Germany. |
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