Hops being cut down and harvested in the field. Aquatint, c. 1786.

Hops being cut down and harvested: six scenes. Sepia aquatint by W.H. Pyne, ca. 1804.

Two scenes of farm buildings with workers packing hops. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

Four scenes of hops being packed and workers being paid. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: a horse constructed from Sacramento hops; part of a California agricultural exhibit. Photograph, 1904.

A woman decorating a girl's hat with hops in a hop field during harvest. Stipple engraving with etching by H. Bourne, c. 1845, after W. Witherington.

Humulus lupulus (Hop)

Hop pickers at work. Wood-engraving, c. 1843 (?).

Hop pickers at work. Wood-engraving, c. 1842 (?).

John Bull making hop-tea in front of a hop grower and his workers; representing adulteration of beer by brewers. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself.

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Theoretic hints on an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops; The Doctrine of Fermentation; The Agency of Air; The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.

Theoretic hints of an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops, The Doctrine of Fermentation, The Agency of Air, The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.

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Hops being cut down and harvested in the field. Aquatint, c. 1786.

Hops being cut down and harvested: six scenes. Sepia aquatint by W.H. Pyne, ca. 1804.

Theoretic hints on an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops; The Doctrine of Fermentation; The Agency of Air; The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.

Theoretic hints on an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops; The Doctrine of Fermentation; The Agency of Air; The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.

Theoretic hints of an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops, The Doctrine of Fermentation, The Agency of Air, The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.

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How hip-hop can save your mental health

Lemme see yer grills

Is shoegaze the loneliest genre of music?

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Hops being cut down and harvested in the field. Aquatint, c. 1786.

Hops being cut down and harvested: six scenes. Sepia aquatint by W.H. Pyne, ca. 1804.

Theoretic hints on an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops; The Doctrine of Fermentation; The Agency of Air; The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.

Theoretic hints on an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops; The Doctrine of Fermentation; The Agency of Air; The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.

Theoretic hints of an improved practice of brewing malt-liquors; including some strictures on the nature and properties of water, Malt, and Hops, The Doctrine of Fermentation, The Agency of Air, The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c. By John Richardson.