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

The lead for this story has been the same for the last five years and will likely remain the same for the next several: There are more craft breweries than… Read More

Craft beer has challenged hop growers. New varieties. Enormous demand. Huge acreage. Varied products: whole cone, pellets, CO2 extract, hop hash and beyond. The indie beer industry has forced the… Read More

Here’s something we haven’t received for awhile: Some positive crop news. We assume you are reading this from some kind of craft beer fallout shelter after our barley panic watch… Read More

Don’t look now, but Nebraska’s brewing scene is getting ready to make a name for itself. Sure, the state already had some great brands like Zipline Brewing Co., Empyrean Brewing… Read More

Saint Arnold Brewing Co. is shipping its latest creation: Saint Arnold Icon Green — 7220 Pale Ale. The brew, described as an American/German pale ale hybrid, features an experimental hop… Read More

That bag of hops is not just 44 pounds of pelletized flavor and aroma. That bag is a journey. It’s a winter of hard field work, a spring of hope,… Read More

Firestone Walker is one of the craft beer industry’s elder statesmen, so that means it is kind of stuck in its ways and willing to live off its beloved legacy… Read More

Washington grows about 75 percent of America’s hops (according to the latest national hop report from the USDA), and most of those are grown in the the Yakima Valley, which… Read More

Virginia isn’t just talking about growing hops — it wants to be the East Coast answer to the Pacific Northwest. The state is incentivizing growers and is now also playing… Read More