What started as an apple business expanded into a hop lot between 2006 and 2008. “We had a lot of great apple growing property. But we had some low ground that isn’t good for fruit so my dad came up ...

The University of Minnesota’s efforts to breed a hardy hop could help local growers and breweries. Here’s why we don’t have ...

The startlingly intense, vibrant green aroma of fresh hops is enough to make any beer lover’s knees buckle. The culprit is lupulin, a yellow pollen lookalike produced in the cone-shaped hop flower.