After 124 years in the hops business, Crosby Hops is still innovating. What it does: Producer of hops and hop pellets Location: Woodburn Top executive: CEO Blake Crosby After 124 years in the hops ...

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 ...

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.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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, ...

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

Do you like hops? Hate them? Do you know what they look like, smell like, feel like? The Bull & Bush Pub & Brewery will elevate hops appreciation today by carrying mugfuls of beer’s most-loved ...

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 ...

There’s a sweet, viridescent stink emerging from the hop room inside Ninkasi Brewing’s pilot brewery. Ninkasi brewer Rich Masella has 40 pounds of Crystal hops boiling, just over an hour after picking ...

The Washington State Department of Agriculture's Yakima hops lab is silent for now. But for six weeks later this summer, the lab will be bustling with 50 temporary workers collecting samples from ...

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 ...