On paper, Heather and Sam Wilson seem like unlikely candidates to open a farm brewery. She’s a nurse practitioner, he’s a firefighter. But their shared interest in home brewing evolved into a desire ...

MUNNSVILLE -- With no viable options for harvesting their crop of hops, Foothill Hops Farm owners Kate and Larry Fisher created one. For their ingenuity in creating a hops harvester and their ...

Fresh hop ales are brewed during late August through October with just-picked hop cones — often used within 24 hours. Access is limited to a roughly six-week window and is often draft-only near hop ...

Steve and Jenn Howe are part of four generations of Hoosier farmers. Located in Crown Point, their collective story goes back to 1851 and provides a living history of Hoosier ingenuity, ...

Before an audience of more than 320 commercial brewers, homebrewers and others from the beer industry around the world, Brenton Roy talked about how difficult it was to be a hop grower just a few ...

Big Sky Hops Farm currently grows six varieties of hops in its fields on Ramsfield Road, North of Bigfork. (photo provided) The 18-foot long hops plants are fed through the processor to separate the ...

WOODBURN, Ore. — Blake Crosby is CEO of Crosby Hops and a fifth-generation farmer at Crosby Hop Farm, where he’s carrying on the family tradition and taking the company in new directions. “From a ...

CHATFIELD, Minn. — Whether it's shifting employees around to make sense of their situation or switching to crowlers and off-sale, craft breweries in Minnesota have faced some struggle from COVID-19.

Starting a hop farm was an easy decision for Eric Sannerud and Ben Boo, who founded Mighty Axe Hops in 2013. The state’s craft beer industry was booming and there was little competition. Now they own ...

Colorado may not be the best-known hop growing region in the U.S., but according to experts, it is producing some of the best crops. This month, Billy Goat Hop Farm in Montrose took the top accolade ...

EDEN, NY (WKBW-TV) — The Koester family in Eden made the switch from growing pumpkins to growing hops in 2015. Nancy Keoster says "I was getting tired of picking up pumpkins." The Koester Hops Farm is ...