CORVALLIS - As craft beer and home brewing continue to rise, interest in growing hops ferments among home gardeners. Shaun Townsend, Oregon State University's hops breeder, said he regularly fields ...

Hops. Even if you’re not a beer lover, you associate the word with brewing. Since the 15th century, brewers have turned to hop flowers (also called “cones” or “strobili”) to add aroma and bitterness ...

With increased popularity of home brewing and a demand for locally grown ingredients, interest in backyard hop production is growing. Primarily used as bittering and aroma agents in beer, hop plants ...

Learn hop growing conditions and rewards of ample shade, prolific forage for animals, superb medicinal benefits, and home brewing beer and cider. Hops are a wonderful addition to any homestead. It’s ...

Hops – used to flavour beer – are the female flower of the plant in the hemp family, Humulus lupulus. It’s a perennial, herbaceous vine more commonly farmed in cool climates, including high-country ...

Home brewers looking to produce a few cones – and backyard gardeners seeking a fast-growing ornamental – might enlist a trellis or two. More serious, yet still small-scale, farmers should consider ...

PHILADELPHIA — In 2008, news of a global hops shortage sent brewers into a cold panic. But for a few would-be farmers, it planted the seed — or, more precisely, the rhizome — of an idea. Though it had ...

WEBVTT KELLIE: AND IT’S NOW A NEW VARIETY OF GRAPES. KCRA 3’S WILL HERYFORD SHOWS US HOW FARMERS ARE TRYING TO TAP INTO THE CRAFT BEER MARKET BY PLANTING A NEW CROP. REPORTER: THESE ARE RISING UP TO ...

There are some fields so vast that they seem to stretch beyond the horizon. The long rows, punctuated with tall trellises that coax miles and miles of bright green hops (Humulus lupulus) skyward, are ...

January and February are the months for digging up rhizomes for replanting. Rhizomes also can be planted in deep containers outside or directly in the ground after January. Crosby Hop Farm in Woodburn ...

FLOYDS KNOBS, Ind. (AP) - Cousins Tim Byrne and Kory Byrne don't have a background in farming, but when they decided to try growing hops, a flowering plant used in beer, it has become an adventure ...

The herbaceous, perennial hop plant is best known as a component of beer that adds a bitter flavor, but it can also be used in nonalcoholic beverages and herbal medicine, and it can be grown here in ...