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

Late summer and early fall are the best times of the year for many reasons, but for craft brewers, there’s one reason that towers over all, like magnificent trellises —… 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

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

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

The Fort Collins Brewery is taking a lineup staple, Red Banshee, and remixing its recipe — and that’s just the type of nerdy brewing thing that excites us around here.… Read More

Yakima Chief Inc. of Sunnyside, Wash., and Hopunion LLC of Yakima, Wash., are combining their worldwide operations under a new parent company, Yakima Chief-Hopunion LLC (YCH). YCH will acquire the… Read More

The craft brewing movement has gained the “movement” label because of the fast growing number of craft breweries popping up across the country, now nearing the 3,000 mark. These sky… Read More

3 Floyds, a brewery in Munster, Ind., with a big reputation, and New Belgium Brewing, the third largest craft brewer in the United States, have partnered to create Grätzer. This… Read More

Craft beer popularity is breeding excitement and complexity for craft brewers who are trying to keep up with the growth that comes from increased demand. The big focus at this… Read More