{"id":7147,"date":"2016-05-22T20:17:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2016-05-22T20:17:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:17:32","slug":"growing-hops-in-the-southeast-to-meet-local-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/growing-hops-in-the-southeast-to-meet-local-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing hops in the Southeast to meet local demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hops are one of the primary ingredients for making beer. \u00a0The best climate for growing them is found in the Pacific Northwest and in similar climates. \u00a0But with a great increase in the demand for craft beer, brewers are looking for new sources of hops, and some farmers in the Southeast are experimenting with trying to grow them here.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> published an article this week describing the challenges that farmers may have in growing hops <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastfarmpress.com\/soybeans\/carolina-virginia-farmers-try-meet-hops-demand-local-craft-beer?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20160518_SEFP-01_631&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_2_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000001384126&amp;utm_campaign=9720&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=d16bbf3f65b840d5be478c36426d4357\">here<\/a>. \u00a0If farmers are successful in picking the right varieties, some day the beer you drink may be entirely homegrown in the Southeast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5765\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/hops.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5765\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/hops-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Algirdas, Commons Wikipedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/hops-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/hops-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/hops.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Algirdas, Commons Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hops are one of the primary ingredients for making beer. \u00a0The best climate for growing them is found in the Pacific Northwest and in similar climates. \u00a0But with a great increase in the demand for craft beer, brewers are looking for new sources of hops, and some farmers in the Southeast are experimenting with trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7148,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions\/7148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}