For a brewer, what fragrant, aromatic ingredient could be better than the hop? Hop extract, of course. Many brewers rely on this condensed, amber, extremely bitter paste to add flavor to their beer ...

shiny new $2 million hop-pelletizing plant in Hubbard is the most tangible evidence of CEO Jim Solberg's belief that it's time for the American craft brewers to move out of the shadow of the giants.

The annual hop harvest is just around the corner in Washington state’s Yakima Valley, the agricultural area where 75 percent of America’s hops are grown, according to the U.S. Department of ...

"The biggest question the brewers have is 'Do you pellitize hops?' as 99 percent of brewing systems use hop pellets," he said of the process that breaks down the hop cone to pellets under a ...

Fresh hop season is all about celebrating what’s new: a fresh harvest of hops, new beers and improved brewing techniques. Shawn Loring, owner and head brewer of Everett’s Lazy Boy Brewing, used fresh ...

Every year Sierra Nevada’s fresh hop Celebration IPA rolls out during the holiday season and beer lovers snap it all up. Founders does one called Harvest Ale and Deschutes has its Fresh Haze, too.

One of the four primary ingredients of beer – along with water, malted barley and yeast – hop cones impart aroma and flavor, balance out sweeter malt flavors, provide degrees of bitterness, and add ...

KENNEWICK — Workers swiftly strung 16-foot-long hop vines onto hooks that carried their valuable cones into the picking machine at Irving Newhouse & Sons near Sunnyside. Metal triangular fingers ...