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The first hop growers were allegedly settlers of French The Yakima Valley is the location of the only thematic
origin. From the east coast, hop fields were gradually hop museum in the USA – the American Hop Museum in
moved to the north-west. The beginning of more intensive Toppenish (http://www.americanhopmuseum.org/home.
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hop cultivation in the USA came in the 19 century. htm). The museum is located in the historicised building
of a former dairy, which was originally Trimble Brothers
For the purposes of the present comparison, it is not Creamery, opened in 1917.
realistic to list all growing regions. Due to the boom in
artisan breweries in the USA, which has been gradually Hop cultivation is also widespread in the surrounding
transferring to the rest of the world for at least the last states of Oregon, in Willamette Valley, and Idaho,
7 years, various very limited acreages of hop fields have in Treasure Valley. The historical and architectural
also emerged in other states within the USA. In the case development is similar to the drying facilities in the
of the three largest growing regions, these are different Yakima River Valley.
buildings based on modern traditions transferred from
Europe, quite different from the situation in Žatec, where In the United States there is no historical set of hop
the property represents an urbanist structure of medieval buildings with a continuous tradition from the Middle
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origin that has evolved over time. Ages, with evidence of a trade boom in the 19 and
20 centuries similar to the nominated Žatec and the
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However, it is worth mentioning the fact that local Landscape of Saaz Hops property.
hop growers monitor the quality of the varieties and
Saaz hops belong to the highly valued species from POLAND
the "old continent". (https://freshops.com/hop-variety- LUBLIN HOP GROWING REGION (15.)
descriptions/. The main site is briefly commented on The largest hop growing area in Poland is still the area
below. around the city of Lublin (Lublin Voivodeship), called the
Lublin hop growing region. Hop growing in the east of
Yakima River Valley hop growing region Poland is connected to the neighbouring Ukrainian hop
The Yakima area in Washington State is a very fertile growing region.
agricultural area, producing many kinds of fruits, but is
also an area that provides a very significant proportion Also in the west of Poland there is a small hop growing
of the hops for the US market and for trade with other region around the town of NowyTomyśl belonging to the
countries. It is the current main centre for hop cultivation. Greater Poland Voivodeship. Another small area is in the 183
Historic rural hop drying kilns in the Yakima River Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
Valley are by shape and grouping an analogy to these
buildings in rural Kent, although the fan roofs are not in Regardless of significant traditions of beer production,
the form of cones, but are mostly pyramids topped by in the whole of Poland there are no architectural
a ventilation tower. monuments comparable to the historical hop buildings

Young hops in a tall hop trellis, Lublin, Poland, 2011