The program, now in its 10th year, engages participants in the collection of wild hops, which are used to brew a local ale in ...

Share on Pinterest Mint Images/Getty Images Hops are the female flowers from the hop plant, Humulus lupulus. They’re most commonly found in beer, where they help produce its bitter flavor.

Wandering through the woods this time of year, occasionally I’ve come across a small deciduous tree laden with cone-like ...

Riel didn’t intend to get involved in the hops industry. She left the Yakima Valley and moved to Seattle. When the craft brewery industry began to grow, she decided to come back to her family ...

of wasted biomass from the rest of the plant. That's a ratio that's roughly 20% usable product to 80% waste. Some of the hops waste can be used for fertilizers, and a portion can be sold to biogas ...

Hops, or humulus lupus if you want to get taxonomical, are one of the four basic ingredients of beer (along with malt, yeast and water), and in America they might be the most important. The plant ...

Wandering through the woods this time of year, occasionally I’ve come across a small deciduous tree laden with cone-like ...

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

The keys to combating the climate change that's wreaking havoc on Germany's beer industry could lie inside a plant nursery at the Society of Hop Research north of Munich. The seedlings here are a ...

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