Tk’emlups Hops Farm harvests first crop
KAMLOOPS — With the 2016 growing season all but over, the time has come for many local producers to harvest whatever remains in their fields, and get ready for the winter ahead. At the Tk’emlups Hops Farm, they’re doing just that. After their first full year of operation on the Tk’emlups Reserve, they’re optimistic about what the future has in store.
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“It wasn’t an ideal Kamloops summer, this year,” Joey Bedard told CFJC Today. “A huge reason we brought the hops farm to Kamloops was for the heat, and IBUs”. For those of you not fluent in the language of craft beer, IBU stands for International Bitterness Units, which is a standard measurement of flavour in many beers being produced today. Those units come from alpha acids, which live inside hops flowers. Which happen top be one of the main ingredients in all styles of beer.