{"id":19410,"date":"2026-02-04T06:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=19410"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:54:34","slug":"hop-object-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/hop-object-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hop object #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spotted in Deutsches Hopfenmuseum in Wolnzach, Germany. The shoes were worn by a worker processing hops. When a bag was filled, a worked would jump into it, stomping down the hops to make sure the bag was full. When I dug this out, I wondered if these could have been called Hopfenstopgen<\/em> boots. That’s because in Hop Queries Vol. 4, No. 6, I wrote about dry hopping in Germany in the 19th century. That was called Hopfenstopfen,<\/em> which can be translated at hop plug.<\/em><\/p>\n

Simon Moosleitner, a subscriber in Germany, suggested there is more to think about, writing: <\/p>\n

\u201cI would give it a slightly different translation. You\u2019re definitely right with translating Stopfen<\/em> as plug or bung. However, in this case the word Stopfen<\/em> is a nominalization of the verb to stopfen<\/em> (you may notice the difference in capitalization, in German nouns are always written with a capital letter).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe verb stopfen<\/em> has a slightly different meaning. It is used when repairing clothes or to be more precise darning socks. But more importantly it\u2019s the same word (potentially even etymologically) as to stuff. Whether you want to say one stuffs a pillow with feathers or food into oneself, the word stopfen<\/em> can always be applied. Hopfenstopfen<\/em> is therefore the act of stuffing beer with hops, which I guess is an even more fitting term now with all the hazy beers around.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spotted in Deutsches Hopfenmuseum in Wolnzach, Germany. The shoes were worn by a worker processing hops. When a bag was filled, a worked would jump into it, stomping down the hops to make sure the bag was full. When I dug this out, I wondered if these could have been called Hopfenstopgen boots. That’s because … 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":[36,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hops","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-534","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19410","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=19410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19415,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19410\/revisions\/19415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}