We love a good collaboration and a good pun. The latter isn’t as easy to come by these days in craft beer because so many have already been used and… Read More

In September 2015, Hogs Back Brewery (founded in 1992 in Tongham, Surrey, England) harvested the first hops from its own hop garden on a 3.5-acre plot adjacent to the brewery,… Read More

New Belgium Brewing sent over some details on the its four new releases coming out this fall. There is a little bit of pumpkin, but New Belgium is turning fall… Read More

Humulus lupulus isn’t the easiest crop to commercially farm. Hops are a vigorous, climbing, herbaceous perennial trained to grow up strings in a field (see above), and just building the… Read More

Local focus is a craft credo — supporting community organizations, brewing for core fans first in your neighborhood and (increasingly) utilizing ingredients that are made in the region. The latter… Read More

Today, craft beer sales make up more than 12 percent of the U.S. beer market and are expected to increase over the next five years. With craft brewers using generous… Read More

Local hop farming is starting to trend in some areas outside of the Pacific Northwest — Michigan, Wisconsin and New York to name a few. And in every example, the… Read More

Summer’s bittersweet final weeks are always a little brighter in the Pacific Northwest — thanks to the region’s increasingly growing hop harvest. Oregon, Washington and Idaho continue to lead the… Read More

Germany is suddenly in American pale ale heaven. First, there is the much-anticipated Stone Brewery opening up shop, and now Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is collaborating with 630-year-old Bavarian craft… Read More

Northern Michigan has all the preconditions to propagate quality hops: long day lengths to flower and produce adequate cone yields and those specific chilling requirements with winter temperatures below 40… Read More