In recent years, Chinook hops have earned a devoted following of craft-brewers on a quest for the Great American Ale. Northwest native provides plentiful cool-green seed-bearing cones (or flowers) which, once prepared, are indispensable to your very own home brew. Chinooks unique matrix of flavor and aromaticspiney, grapefruit, and spicy notes in concert with deeper smoky flavor and aromagive character and heft to pale ale, wheat beer, and stout. Chinook will flourish in all types of climate and terrain, from desert regions to the rainy Northwest. In their first growing season, once your vigorous plants have yielded a big hop crop, its time to get brewing. Disease-resistant.