A sweet and calming aroma filled the air in front of Steamworks Brewing Co. on Wednesday morning as a mobile hop harvester stripped cones from vines. The harvester rumbled as the tines removed the ...

A hop harvester moves down rows of hop trellises at harvest. American hop production totaled 87.1 million pounds in 2024, down 16% from the previous year, as the industry continues to deal with a glut ...

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 ...

Green. That’s what was flooding through my brain during a recent tour of Bell’s Brewery 2-acre hopyard, which was awash in employees helping to harvest their homegrown hops. Three special beers will ...

A cool, dry dawn greeted the six-person crew gathered Thursday morning between the towering, trellised rows at Alexander Valley Hops east of Healdsburg. It was perfect day for gathering the prized ...

The Old Fort at Hesperus, New Mexico State University, Pine River Hops and volunteers will meet at 7:30 a.m. Monday in front of Steamworks Brewing Co., 801 East Second Ave., and use its Hopster, or ...

GRANGER, Wash. - At the base of a big yellow hop harvester, somewhere above the front wheels, workers shove vines through a hole about the size of a baseball. Unseen machinery slurps them through, ...

PARMA, Idaho — Have you ever wondered what those unusual looking vines are growing on some Canyon County farms? They’re probably hops, which supply a growing industry of microbreweries in Idaho. Hops ...

LAS CRUCES - Craft brewing is one of the fastest-growing niche markets in New Mexico. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on businesses, including taprooms, there were 90-plus microbreweries ...

OTTAWA — It is a brisk spring morning in mid-April and Kansas Hop Co.'s farm is a blank canvas. Clyde Sylvester walks across his property over to the 3 acres of soil where hops seeds are resting ...