My good friend Tim has been growing some massive hop vines this summer. In the spring he set up 14 foot poles in his back yard and strung rope to the ground where the little rhizomes were planted.
On Sunday Tim, his wife Joan, and their son Levi invited a few of us over to help with the hop harvest. Naturally we also brewed beer and had a great time trying out each other's summer brews.
This is a shot of one of the hop buds before we cut the vines and got to work.