From bitter hop bombs to hazy juice, today’s IPA family turns a 250-year-old export beer into America’s favorite style. Here’s how to find your perfect brew.

Hops are the cones of the hop plant. They're used in making beer. Craft beer lovers love hops. (Just ask them; they'll tell you.) As the market for craft beer exploded over the hops business boomed.

We are still in the midst of a craft beer revolution here in the U.S. The movement champions smaller, more local breweries, but the beer itself is often characterized by a specific ingredient: hops.

The craft beer revolution turned the tall cousin of cannabis into a breakout ingredient, infusing your brew with flavors and aromas that range from stone fruit to barrel oak. Christopher Solomon hits ...

Brewers in our modern era live in a time of riches unparalleled in the history of their art. The quality and range of ingredients, from grain to yeast to hops, provide both commercial and hobbyist ...

Smithsonian beer curator Theresa McCulla and colleagues from the Smithsonian Gardens harvest hops from the National Museum of American History’s victory garden. Smithsonian National Museum of American ...

What do wolves, marijuana and beer have in common? The answer is hops. Ok, what’s up with the riddle? The fact of the matter is that the major ingredient which puts the bitterness, the herbaceousness, ...

Mad Fox Brewing Co.%2C in Virginia%2C is among 600-plus breweries at the Great American Beer Festival Of more than 2%2C500 breweries in U.S.%2C most are craft breweries and 1%2C600 more are in the ...

While beer connoisseurs have mixed and heated opinions about the trend of ever-more hoppy beers, some researchers just can’t get enough of the bitter buds. Their keen interest stems from the ...

I find that when most people say "I don't like beer," they really mean "I don't like hops." Hops are the primary source of bitterness in beer, and bitterness is primarily what turns people away.

Brewers are playing up the sparkling beverage’s better-for-you attributes to appeal to a wide variety of consumers.