Hopsteiner

well... i've really got a ton of pictures of this place, but i won't bore you people that don't really give a shit about hop pellet manufacturing. the first one i believe is some sort of sorter or something. nice sentence. the next picture doesn't look like much to the average person, but this is where they form enriched pellet 45's. they first take away most of the stem and flower of the hop cones and pretty much leave just the lupulin glands. the good stuff. this is where they mix the lups with some of the flowers to make pellet 45's more expensive, but you don't have to use as much of them, therefore less storage space. then we have a hammer mill that hammers. and a die that forms the hop pellets. finally they have this huge cold storage room. couldn't get a real good shot of this because we were not allowed in the room. the one you see is only about half the height of the building. again, use your imagination. we also got to visit the building they make hop extract with ethanol, but our guide did not really know that much about that process, so no pictures for you on this subject. ask to see them the next time you see me. lots of pipes and valves.