Have you ever wondered how beer is made and what ingredients are used in this most refreshing beverage? One key element is hops — a cone-shaped flower of the plant (Humulus lupulus) in the ...

Hops are the key ingredient that turn beer into beer. If you want to be an expert, here's what you need to know. Food & Wine / Hopsy / Dziggyfoto / Getty Images Hops have fueled the modern beer ...

Brandon Capps was stuck in a brewer’s conundrum. He wanted to make a fresh-hop IPA using whole-cone hops that would be harvested and then flown to from Washington to Colorado, where they could be ...

There is really only one kind of beer in the brewing world that can only be made at a specific time of the year: fresh hopped beers. While many other styles, such as pumpkin, maibock and peach, are ...

The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and microbrewery partners across the state are exploring Southern-grown hops and their unique characteristics for beer brewing. The experiment station, the ...

The 2019 American Hop Convention, held in January in Monterey, California, was part agriculture conference and part old-home week. Almost all of the nation’s beer hops—and roughly 40 percent of all ...

The interactive Custom Pale Ale experience - in which customers are served a neutral base pale ale and their choice of whole cone hops which they steep in the beer in a French press - has arrived at ...

John D. Peterson and his business partner Art Weidner grow two varieties of the viney, thirsty hop plant on an 80- by 50-foot plot tucked into the back of Peterson's family farm near Sabin. Art ...