The brewers will use the hops in a special beer throughout the year, owner Will Tatchell said. 

About 40 of Mr Tatchell’s friends and family helped with the picking at Evandale, with a side of sausages and “a few beers”. 

“It’s just an opportunity to educate people where beer ingredients come from,” he said. 

“It’s a euphemism for what beer is – it’s a social ingredient.”

Some of the picked hops will be used on Monday, to make a “fresh hop” beer for Launceston’s Fresh Hop Beer Festival next month.

The remainder will be dried out and used throughout the year, Mr Tatchell said. 

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