Whether you love lagers or extra-bitter IPAs, you love alpha acids and just don’t know it. These are the compounds in hops that impart that bitter taste, which can be subtle or intense, depending on ...

GRANGER — In one hop yard at Carpenter Ranches, where irrigator George Ochoa turns valves off and on to rotate water, vines grow lush, leafy and all the way to the trellis wire high above his head. In ...

HESPERUS – Twenty-three hop growers and aspiring hop growers braved 40-degree weather and residual snow Friday to learn more about cultivating the plant used chiefly to make beer. The open house was ...

We all know that you need water to make beer. After all, beer’s up to 95 percent water. But you also need water to grow the other stuff that’s in beer, like barley and hops. Hops are the flowers of a ...

MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. (AP) — On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie's farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer ...

Hops are one of the key ingredients in beers—along with yeast, water, and some sort of grain, they are used to produce the world's oldest alcoholic beverage. For those who love the best type of ...

Drip irrigation isn’t just for onions anymore. Farmers in Idaho and Eastern Oregon are increasingly using drip to irrigate hops, vegetable seed, orchards, vineyards and other high-value crops. This is ...

Home brewers looking to produce a few cones – and backyard gardeners seeking a fast-growing ornamental – might enlist a trellis or two. More serious, yet still small-scale, farmers should consider ...

Hotter, drier seasons are threatening the traditions of German hops growers, who are fighting to preserve a way of life — and the flavor of your favorite brew. By Catie Edmondson Catie Edmondson ...