110 Benton Road Reidsville, NC 27320
Providing local farm fresh hops
Here at Raging Ruth Hops, our mission statement is simple
- Quality
- Diversity
- Continuous Improvement
Raging Ruth Hop Farm Updates
New Trellises Added
We are proud to announce that we now have Cascade AND Chinook hops. What's growing in the background? TATERS!!
Planting
Garrett is here helping with the planting of our new Chinook hops. Notice the corrugated pipe used for the "plant bed". This adds up front but so far has helped very much with yard maintenance.
Hanging Coconut Coir
Craig Jr. driving me around. I think I should be looking up, not down!!
Cascade and Chinook Hops Analyses
We submitted samples of our hops to Virginia Tech. for analyses and results are as follows.
CASCADE CHINOOK
1 - Alpha Acid 6.49% 10.44%
2 - Beta Acid 3.29% 2.06%
3 - Storage Index 0.14% 0.26%
Our Yard
Our four trellises, Chinook is growing in the two to the left and the Cascade is growing to the right. Hope this year's crop will be much better than this photo :-) I'll be upgrading this one soon. We are also experimenting with a small batch of AlphAroma, Canadian Redvine and Magnum varieties to test their abilities growing in this climate and soil type.
A Touch of Color
Companion plants add a special touch that brings the hop yard to life.
What It's All About
The end product is what it's all about, and through good practices, great beer hops for your favorite recipe.
Other Farm Friends and Activities
Cows
Garrett & Big Red
Cows
Big Red and Arnold.
Pigs
Garrett & Big Red
Cows
Stubs and Caesar
Garrett & Big Red
Garrett & Big Red
Garrett & Big Red
A heated discussion
Team Work
John Deere or Ford
Garrett & Big Red
Pre-maintenance, looking for problems before they happen.
Extra Help?
John Deere or Ford
John Deere or Ford
Well the organtic fertlizer is a plus.
John Deere or Ford
John Deere or Ford
John Deere or Ford
1957 JD 420s and a 1948 Ford 8n. They still help out around the farm.