Humulus lupulus 'Cascade'

'Cascade' is a widely-grown cultivar commonly used in the craft beer industry. If you're making beer, why not grow your own hops? Or if you love beer, grow this ornamental vine in your garden and sit back with a cold one to enjoy the display. Hops is a herbaceous twining vine with large tri-lobed leaves that grows back each spring from the ground to heights of as much as 25 feet in a season. It is usually grown in sun but also does well down to part shade.

Pioneered in the 1950's by Jack Horner and his team at Oregon State University, Cascade hops have since gone on to become one of the most popular American hops of all time. Released in 1972, Cascade now represents around 10% of all hops grown in the United States. Cascade features excellent vigor and yield and when brewed exudes a distinct spicy citrus aroma with hints of grapefruit. Well suited to just about any ale and lager, its use is particularly popular in American Pale Ales. Its relatively poor storage stability tends to be a non-issue with its popularity and subsequent large production volumes from major US breweries ensuring harvests don't sit idle for long. Cascade was originally developed through open pollination of English variety Fuggle and the Russian variety Serebrianka and is named after the Cascade Range, mountains that run from northern California all the way north to British Columbia, Canada.

Used as an "aroma hop" in brewery blends, this disease-resistant hop has a good crop of shade-producing, dark-green leaves for arbor or trellis, as well as mid-season, beer-producing hops. Sun/Med