Shrinking harvests of hops are making beer more expensive, but researchers are raising hopes that this indispensable ingredient in brewing could be grown indoors to make it cheaper. Earlier this year, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While it might seem complex to anyone who has never brewed their own beer, at its essence, beer is made of only a handful of ...

With craft beer booming and local breweries springing up all over the country, Midwest farmers are testing out ways to play a role in the growing market and, in the process, make local beer truly ...

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 ...

Growing up 20-foot poles along Interstate 80 this summer was a throwback crop to Sacramento’s past: hops. “People would drive by and wonder, why are they growing peas in Dixon?” joked J-E Paino, owner ...

Smithsonian beer curator Theresa McCulla and colleagues from the Smithsonian Gardens harvest hops from the National Museum of American History’s victory garden. Smithsonian National Museum of American ...

Hops in major beer-producing European countries like Germany, Czech Republic and Slovenia are ripening earlier and producing less since 1994, scientists found. And, perhaps most alarmingly for the IPA ...

Most of the U.S. farms that grow hops, a key ingredient in beer, are in the state of Washington. And as climate change continues—with more heat waves like one that hit the Pacific Northwest last June, ...

The craft beer boom has allowed hops growers in the Washington's Yakima Valley to expand in recent years and to fetch higher prices for their crops. But a worsening drought and unseasonably hot ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – For Kim Harris, Harlem Hops is more than just a bar. When she started the business alongside Stacey Lee and Kevin Bradford, she envisioned a cultural hub, where visitors from ...

Note: Holtwood Hops has suspended its hop cultivation "for the foreseeable future." Hops add bitterness to a beer and balance the sweet malt. They also add a depth of aroma and flavors such as citrus.