Country
South Africa
A hop-growing country whose varieties are unlike anything from the northern hemisphere, grown under artificial light near the southern limit of where the plant will flower.
South African hops are grown in the Western Cape at a latitude where daylight hours are too short for hops to flower normally, so the crop is grown under supplementary lighting. That constraint is part of why the varieties — Southern Passion, African Queen, Southern Aroma — taste unlike hops from anywhere else, running to passionfruit, guava and blackcurrant rather than to citrus, pine or noble spice.
The brewing industry is dominated by a small number of large producers, so the country’s significance to beer worldwide is agricultural rather than stylistic.