If you're new to growing hops, or if you've had mixed success in the past, September planting might be just what you need to turn your hop-growing efforts into a fruitful harvest.

Hops may look like buds, but they are actually small flowers that grow vertically on bines. A perennial plant, they thrive between the 50th and 40th parallels, but can grow as low as the 30th ...

The hop plant is a fast-growing, herbaceous perennial, native to temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Only the female plants produce cones for use as hops (the male plants are the pollinators).

High above the narrow dirt rows lie future beers waiting for a home.

Hops grow best when given a minimum of 16 hours of sunlight, which is available at latitudes of 35 degrees and above. Florida’s uppermost latitude reaches just 31 degrees, UF/IFAS said.

Not long ago, enthusiasts foresaw a day when many San Diego beers would feature San Diego hops, the oily cones that lend beer numerous enticing flavors and aromas. When the San Diego Hop Growers ...

McWhirt has been growing hops at the Fruit Research Station in Clarksville since 2019. She's now testing hop cone quality and yield with varying numbers of hop bines per plant.

PARMA, Idaho — Idaho’s oldest hops grower just celebrated his 100th birthday. Ray Obendorf was born on June 24, 1923, in Caldwell, Idaho, and an estimated 200 family members and […] ...

The first Riverwest Backyard Hops was brewed two years after Company Brewing opened in 2013, when a neighbor asked if the brewery had any use for wild hops that were growing in their backyard.