American Hop Museum — Attraction in Toppenish

Thoroughly enjoyable gem of a tiny museum - This place is worth a stop while you are in Yakima Valley to get a basic familiarization with the basics of things you absolutely never thought about before in the flavor making component of your favorite beer. You can easily do it in 2 hours, and walk away with a day well spent because you learned something today. Great break from wine tasting, fun side trip in Toppenish which has great art murals on the buildings all over the place and is worth a visit just because of the murals. While you are there recommend that you eat at one of the local Mexican restaurants which were...

This was a really pleasant surprise. We had intended to see the railroad museum but sadly it was closed. This hops museum caught our high so we went in. It was well worth it. The ingenuity and productivity of American agriculture is amazing. We were shown a short video that explains the growing of hops. Of course we had seen massive hop fields as we drove through the valley and wondered what was going on. After the video we knew! We then walked through a pleasantly laid out and curated museum. The host was a delightful woman who made the experience fun. Highly...

Random stop and really interesting to learn a quick story about the history and growth of hops (for beer) in Washington State and the United States. ...Apparently Yakima Valley produces more than 75 percent of this countries hops, and even supplies hops to over 30 countries globally; beating out Germany in...