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We want to bring the best tasting x-hops to you, whether they make the final cut or not. At the same time, a lot of great aroma hops which did not make the agronomic cut were still taste worthy. A winning commercially viable new hop has to score an A across the board. Without a doubt, hop breeding and selection favors the strong and the tasty. Some have passed the taste test and moved up the ladder for more testing, only to be scrapped later because the yields were irreparably low, or they were prone to unmitigable disease. Over the past few years, we’ve been fortunate enough to pilot brew with experimental hops that have emerged from the breeding program.
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It’s been a slow ride, but we’re getting there. It turns out breeding hops takes time - especially if you want those hops to have high disease resistance, reliable agronomics, robust yields, and unique and tasty flavors. Earlier, in 2009, Roger Worthington and Jim Solberg launched Indie Hops, which in turn created and funded the pioneering program in Corvallis. The confidence in our mission was emboldened by our owner’s investment in the Aroma Hop Breeding Program at Oregon State University. We won’t bring sand to the beach, we said. When Worthy opened it’s doors in 2013, we made a promise: we will bring new and exciting hop flavors to the pint glass.