ocr: The Ingredients of Beer Hops are grown in south-east England and also in Hereford and Worcester, but increasingly the market for hops is an international one, with major growing areas in Oregon USA, Germany, the Czech Republic and China. The green cones of the female hop, a vine-like climbing plant, are used to give beer its bitterness and aroma. Hop cones are traditionally packed in large sacks known as pockets. They can also be powdered and compressed into hop pellets, which are easier to handle and to store, or bittering and aroma qualities can be obtained in hop extracts. Traditional Briti ...