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I hopped out of my car on Madison Drive, NW on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. I’d planned to arrive at the Victory Garden at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History between 9 and 9:30 AM but I got stuck behind a motorcade–nine cops and three black SUVs–on Constitution Avenue, which pushed my arrival time back.  Photo Credit: Theresa McCulla When I first stepped foot in the Victory Garden, Theresa McCulla, PhD, Curator of the American Brewing History Initiative at the American History Museum, welcomed me. It was thanks to her invitation that I was able to pick hops. The last time I stepped foot in the garden, almost three years to the day, was hop harvest 2019. Smithsonian Gardens Horticulturist Sarah Dickert showed me to the hop bines, laid across tarps with several teams picking through the harvest. I sat next to homebrewer Russell Flench, who was diligently plucking Cascade hops off their bine. P … |
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