Want a cold pint with a dash of botanical mystery and Utah history? Try local hops. Getting access to fresh hops through foraging or gardening has gotten more popular in the last few years in the ...

Shrinking harvests of hops are making beer more expensive, but researchers are raising hopes that this indispensable ingredient in brewing could be grown indoors to make it cheaper. Earlier this year, ...

U.S. hops production increased 2% to 104 million pounds in 2023 despite a 10% drop in acreage, according to the USDA. That’s due in large part to more plantings in Washington and Idaho of high alpha ...

MUNICH — Two students in Munich, sipping beers on their dormitory couch in 2022, chatted about a recent lecture describing the use of banana fibers in Colombia to make sustainable building materials.

Dan Wheat/Capital Press Hops are harvested at Roy Farms near Moxee, Wash., in 2013. Members of Congress are asking the USDA to fund more research on hops. U.S. hop production is expected to reach 104 ...

A crew collects 125 pounds on the Lucky Lab's back porch that now are in the new brews By JOHN FOYSTON The Oregonian Portlanders are eagerly forging new connections with the land that feeds them, beer ...

The growing season in the Pacific Northwest has been unusual this year — a cold spring followed by an unseasonably hot and dry summer. “[What] we’re seeing all over the globe is a little bit less ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — For at least the second consecutive year, Oregon farmers are harvesting fewer hops to match the decline in beer sales. In 2023, the state’s hop acreage dropped by 11% to about ...

Thursday, Aug. 25, 2:15 p.m.: Hops plants being tested at Virginia Tech’s Urban Horticulture Center have been damaged by the European corn borer, an insect pest. A $30,000 Virginia Department of ...

An aerial view of Combine harvesters from the agricultural company Markfrucht Luetzow harvest rapeseed in a field after sunset. Jens Büttner/dpa German farmers harvested significantly more hops in ...