Last week, a contingent from Founders Brewing Co., including Brewmaster Jeremy Kosmicki, were out in Yakima Valley, Wash., where they met with hop farmers to check out this year’s harvest… Read More

This video reminds us of being in Oregon two weeks ago, drinking beer that literally had hops floating in it, drifting from the process facility and into our glasses as… Read More

We spent today in the bines. We spent today soaking up the Oregon sun, exploring harvest-ready hopyards and learning about Rogue Ales and Spirit’s GYO (grow your own) farming philosophies.… Read More

With intrepid reporter Keith Gribbins live on the scene at Rogue Farms to document the 2016 hop harvest, we wanted to update you on the overall outlook for this year’s… Read More

We landed in Portland today. We promptly picked up our pimp sled (a Hyundai Elantra) and headed directly to Rogue headquarters for an interview with president Brett Joyce at the… Read More

We’ve been having daydreams about tractors rolling through hopyards. We’ve been sitting at our desks, gazing off into the distance (mouths agape) and imagining long, green bines being trimmed from… 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

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

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