Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hops in a burlap sack - Stone36/Shutterstock One of the most talked about ingredients in the beer brewing process is hops. Some ...

There are more than two dozen craft breweries in operation or in the works in the Northland, part of a boom in beer and spirits production in the region in recent years. The local focus of those ...

Even if you never plan on using them to make homemade beer, hops (Humulus lupulus) create beautiful living fences. For thousands of years, hops have been cultivated across the Northern Hemisphere and ...

Have you ever wondered how beer is made and what ingredients are used in this most refreshing beverage? One key element is hops — a cone-shaped flower of the plant (Humulus lupulus) in the ...

Inquiring readers might wonder why a teetotaler would purchase this particular vine from among invasive plants. My excuse is that as a beginning gardener, I was very much into herbs, and hops once ...

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. Fall is the off-season, ...