hop farm in Mainberg

sorry it's taking so long to get through all these pictures. there are just too many of them and i only have some much time on my hands for this kind of thing. excuses excuses. after Nuremberg we traveled down the road to Mainberg where people pretty much live off of hops. it's too bad that no hops were growing when we came through. the first picture is one of the many empty hop fields we passed. i think they look much cooler when hops are growing on them. maybe later this spring i'll be able to take some better shots of them. we had a tour set up at this place called Hopsteiner where they make hop pellets and hop extract. pictures of that will actually be posted before you reach these. you just have to take it the way you can get it. the second shot is the front end of a hop plucking machine. you feed this machine hop vines and it plucks off all the hop cones. wish we could have seen this working. next is a room where they dry the cones and then guess what's in the bags? part of last year's harvest. all these shots looked better in person of course. just use your imagination people.