MILWAUKEE (AP) – Craft brewers eager to capitalize on the local food movement have created a strong demand for hops to flavor their all-local beers, but farms in most states have grown slowly because ...

CHATFIELD, Minn. — Whether it's shifting employees around to make sense of their situation or switching to crowlers and off-sale, craft breweries in Minnesota have faced some struggle from COVID-19.

MUNNSVILLE -- With no viable options for harvesting their crop of hops, Foothill Hops Farm owners Kate and Larry Fisher created one. For their ingenuity in creating a hops harvester and their ...

When you drink a bitter beer, you don’t say, “This stout certainly has a lot of iso-alpha acids.” But in part, that’s what you’re drinking. The key to brewing a good beer is to balance bitterness and ...

WOODBURN, Ore. — Blake Crosby is CEO of Crosby Hops and a fifth-generation farmer at Crosby Hop Farm, where he’s carrying on the family tradition and taking the company in new directions. “From a ...

Starting a hop farm was an easy decision for Eric Sannerud and Ben Boo, who founded Mighty Axe Hops in 2013. The state’s craft beer industry was booming and there was little competition. Now they own ...

WINNEBAGO CO., Wis. (WBAY) - A Winnebago County man started producing a particular crop, bringing back a tradition that has been long gone from the area. “The lupulin is what the brewers are looking ...

Big Sky Hops Farm currently grows six varieties of hops in its fields on Ramsfield Road, North of Bigfork. (photo provided) The 18-foot long hops plants are fed through the processor to separate the ...

It's never been easy to be a farmer, and that's especially true for the wild ride that 2020 has been. Market disruptions over tariffs and supply interruptions are another in a line of challenges ...

Once again, I have a few reporting tidbits left over after finishing up a story. (I hope this isn’t a bad habit developing.) This time the leftovers are about Yakima Valley’s hops coping with drought ...

Colorado may not be the best-known hop growing region in the U.S., but according to experts, it is producing some of the best crops. This month, Billy Goat Hop Farm in Montrose took the top accolade ...