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The green hops were spread out in the kilns. The floors were generally of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch (32 mm) square battens nailed at right angles across the joists, placed so that there was a similar gap between each batten, and covered with a horsehair cloth. The hops would be spread some 12 inches (300 mm) deep, the kiln doors closed and the furnace lit.
The Walters Ranch Hop Kiln was built by Italian stonemason, Angelo "'Skinny" Soldini. Sol Walters purchased 380 acres of the Rancho Sotoyome, a 1853 Mexican land grant to Josefa Fitch. The Walters Ranch Hop Kiln is composed of three stone kilns (ovens, Oast houses) for drying hops for 20 hours a patch. Hops are used in beer making breweries.
Also known as hop houses or hop kilns, hop barns were very common in areas of the United States where hops were grown. Hop barns were so common it was said that "every other farm" had one. [5] In New York state's "hop belt" numerous hop barns were constructed between the early 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
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Emil Clemens Horst (18 March 1867 – 24 May 1940) [1] was a major figure in the cultivation, harvest and sale of hops in the United States. The founder of the Horst Company. He invented the mechanical hops separator in 1909 and was the largest hop grower in the world in 191
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Worcestershire and Herefordshire has also been a major hop-growing area. The jargon of the areas is distinguished from that of Kent in certain words. Thus in Kent the drying house is known as an oast-house, in Worcestershire as a kiln, a hop-field is called a hop-garden, in Worcestershire a hop-yard.