Smash beers (single malt/single hop) have taken over many a taproom, with St. Louis’s Schlafly brewpub being no exception. The concept is to highlight flavors with the core ingredients, helping raise ...

Six clusters of hops vines grow outside the Yakima headquarters of John I. Haas. The company is one of just a few large-scale hops distributors in the Yakima Valley, and part of the Barth-Haas group, ...

Don’t tell Eric March that Germans lack a sense of humor. He’s reduced Bavarian farmers to helpless laughter, merely by mentioning San Diego’s hop crop. “I’ve had German hop growers laugh me out of ...