The Oast House Hop Farm is a start-up ag operation in central New Jersey dedicated to providing quality organic hops to craft breweries, utilizing sustainable farming practices. It’s a homegrown… Read More

Since 2008, Rogue Ales & Spirits has remained committed to saving the terroir of Oregon hops and barley, one acre at a time, by growing its own. The famed Oregon… Read More

Beers can appear unclear for many reasons. Improper filtration, incomplete fermentation or incompatibilities of ingredients are common causes. A typical beer contains 91 percent water, 4.6 percent carbohydrate (maltose and… Read More

White Labs has begun shipping to brewers one of the top-selling White Labs’ yeast strains, the WLP001 California Ale Yeast, in the new PurePitch packaging. Along with utilizing the new… Read More

Water, water everywhere, but not all of it will make the same beer. Some of the craft brewing industry’s largest companies are dealing with those water quirks as they expand… Read More

Our feature on the British hop harvest came with so many eye-popping, hops-porn pics that we couldn’t pack them all into the story. So we’ve loaded up the whole harvest… Read More

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. will host its second annual Single, Fresh, Wet & Wild Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 18, at its brewery in Chico, Calif. The acclaim from hop… Read More

The British hop harvest is dramatic, noisy, frenetic and does not last very long. In just a few weeks British hop farms will have completed the harvest of one of… Read More

We last checked in on the California drought in March. At the time, Tom McCormick, executive director of the California Craft Brewers Association, told us: “We still have four to… Read More

A month ago, The Wall Street Journal wrote about the possibility that hop prices could sky rocket and how that was (potentially) going to hurt the small craft breweries across… Read More