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, Colorado, took the top ...

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 ...

Andrew Fleming knew he had an uphill battle with little payoff in the first year. But four months in, his business is budding. On his farm in Chesapeake, Fleming is growing hops — conical flowers that ...

Even before COVID-19 officially arrived in the Yakima Valley, officials at Yakima Chief Hops, a grower-owned hop processor and supplier, anticipated the pandemic would impact their brewery customers ...

For five generations, Steve Carpenter’s family grew hops in the Yakima Valley. And while the honest Carpenter wouldn’t seem out of place in a hop field, today he handles a position with slightly more ...

Romina Atzin sweeps up harvested hops at Perrault Farms in Toppenish in Yakima County on Sept. 16. Washington has 71 percent of the more than 60,000 acres of hops planted in the U.S. as of June.