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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While it might seem complex to anyone who has never brewed their own beer, at its essence, beer is made of only a handful of ...

This past September, Portland’s Breakside Brewery was conducting a strange experiment. Brewers had just returned from a field a half hour south with a sack full of freshly-picked hops. To fully access ...

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 ...

Colorado brewers are a proud bunch, proud of their beer, of their profession and of their state – which is why many of them have made small batches of beer that use only ingredients made or grown in ...

Using precise mash temperatures, advanced hop extracts, and specialized yeast, brewers are rethinking how much alcohol it actually takes to make great beer.