Once upon a time, hops weren't the primary bittering agent in a homebrew. That honor belonged to this unlikely backyard plant ...

Hoppy beer is all the rage among craft brewers and beer lovers, and now UC Berkeley biologists have come up with a way to create these unique flavors and aromas without using hops. The researchers ...

Hops are the key ingredient that turn beer into beer. If you want to be an expert, here's what you need to know. For more than 20 years John Holl has been covering the beer industry as a reporter and ...

Only four ingredients are needed to make modern beer: water, malted grain (in most cases, barley), hops, and yeast. Just by manipulating these four elements, a skilled brewer can produce any of the ...

The 2019 American Hop Convention, held in January in Monterey, California, was part agriculture conference and part old-home week. Almost all of the nation’s beer hops—and roughly 40 percent of all ...

Animal and cell studies suggest that consuming hops could provide a range of health benefits, but human studies are sparse. Hops plants provide beer with its signature taste and aroma, and studies in ...