Sometimes when it comes to brewing beer, it takes a village. That’s certainly the case with Iron Goat ’s third annual Spo-Hop, made with fresh hops grown by the brewery’s customers in their back yards ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. For many beer brewers, it’s like Christmas in August. That day when David Warren rolls up with a truckful of ...

Windmills Brewery in the Grandscape area of The Colony will host the North Texas Fresh Hop Festival on Oct. 29. In its inaugural year, this festival celebrates beers brewed with fresh hops. What are ...

Sorry Oktoberfest. And pumpkin-spice ales, we still dig you. But if we wanna get real, it’s our fresh-hop brew that should be crowned the beer of autumn. We do it well here. We do it better than ...

Centrally located in Washington state, the Yakima Valley produces an abundance of apples, cherries, and pears. Perhaps more importantly for beer lovers, it’s also a critical agricultural area for ...

Beer is brewed with dried hops due to the flower’s extremely short shelf life. But during the three-week harvest season in Oregon (generally between mid-August and mid-September), brewers have the ...

Editor's note: Last month, internationally known Portland beer writer Jeff Alworth released his magnum opus, The Beer Bible. It's only a slight stretch to say the 720-page tome had its genesis here at ...

The beginning of fall means the onslaught of seasonal flavors, from pumpkin spice lattes to apple cider – but for beer lovers, it’s also fresh hop season. Hops are the flowers of the hop plant that ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Elizabeth Herres Miller invented the Fresh Hop Ale Festival, but she doesn’t remember exactly how many people attended the first one back in 2003. A Yakima Herald-Republic story ...

We think of beer as this standardized product — like Pop-Tarts or Coca-Cola — and because of large-scale production methods, it pretty much is. The can of Budweiser you had last year is the same as ...

September in Seattle brings up visions of tailgate parties, football games, sipping lattes after getting the kids on the school bus, and, for beer lovers, fresh hops. “This is a special time for local ...

For some reason, the publisher was prickly about WW's request to reprint the chapter on fresh-hop ales from the best-seller. Alworth was kind enough to provide us with an Oregon-centric retelling of ...