{"id":16552,"date":"2021-08-26T07:53:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=16552"},"modified":"2021-08-26T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:53:54","slug":"the-future-of-hops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-future-of-hops\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of hops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few things I have been seeing this week in Washington&#8217;s Yakima Valley.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kfi.jpm.mybluehost.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-sisters.jpg\" alt=\"Hop cones - sisters\" width=\"710\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-sisters.jpg 710w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-sisters-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-sisters-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-sisters-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sisters. Cones taken from sister plants in one of Hopsteiner&#8217;s experimental yards. What can happen from just one generation to the next. In case you were wondering why breeders talk about phenotype and genotype.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kfi.jpm.mybluehost.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-ych.jpg\" alt=\"Tissue culture room at Yakima chief propagation facility in Zilla, Washington.\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-ych.jpg 500w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-ych-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-ych-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tissue culture room at the YCH Hops propagation center in Zillah. The high tech facility is strikingly different than the nostalgic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teapot_Dome_Service_Station\">Teapot Dome Service Station<\/a> Zillah is better known for.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kfi.jpm.mybluehost.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-public-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"USDA-ARS breeding yard in Prosser, Washington\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-public-rotated.jpg 500w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-public-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210826-public-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A breeding yard at the USDA ARS station in Prosser, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few things I have been seeing this week in Washington&#8217;s Yakima Valley. Sisters. Cones taken from sister plants in one of Hopsteiner&#8217;s experimental yards. What can happen from just one generation to the next. In case you were wondering why breeders talk about phenotype and genotype. The tissue culture room at the YCH &#8230; <a title=\"The future of hops\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-future-of-hops\/\" aria-label=\"More on The future of hops\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4iY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16559,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions\/16559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}