Have you ever wondered how beer is made and what ingredients are used in this most refreshing beverage? One key element is hops — a cone-shaped flower of the plant (Humulus lupulus) in the ...

Hops are the key ingredient that turn beer into beer. If you want to be an expert, here's what you need to know. Food & Wine / Hopsy / Dziggyfoto / Getty Images Hops have fueled the modern beer ...

Fresh hop ales are brewed during late August through October with just-picked hop cones — often used within 24 hours. Access is limited to a roughly six-week window and is often draft-only near hop ...

September in Colorado brings juicy peaches, the smell of roasting green chiles and pumpkin spice lattes. But for beer drinkers, the transition from summer to fall means fresh-hop beers. One of the ...

There is really only one kind of beer in the brewing world that can only be made at a specific time of the year: fresh hopped beers. While many other styles, such as pumpkin, maibock and peach, are ...

If you love the bitter, citrusy or floral notes of an India Pale Ale, you can thank hops for that: The cone-like flowers provide a bitter kick and balance the malty, sweet characteristics in any beer.

The interactive Custom Pale Ale experience - in which customers are served a neutral base pale ale and their choice of whole cone hops which they steep in the beer in a French press - has arrived at ...

John D. Peterson and his business partner Art Weidner grow two varieties of the viney, thirsty hop plant on an 80- by 50-foot plot tucked into the back of Peterson's family farm near Sabin. Art ...