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In San Diego, the beer community is in such an uproar over AB InBev's 10 Barrel Brewing opening a brew pub, one self-proclaimed (presumably craft) beer fan started a Go Fund me campaign to fly a ...
During the 1950s, 60s, and 70s B.C. hops used to play a big role in the beer industry, according to Tom Baumann, an agriculture professor at the University of Fraser Valley.
Hops flowers, most often associated with beer making, have so much to offer than meets the eye. They are neither colourful nor showy, but they are elegant, strong, and uncommonly resilient.
Some craft brewers are skeptical about this new scientific breakthrough, vowing never to trade hops for genetically modified yeast By Vanessa Hrvatin Published Mar 22, 2018 4 minute read ...
The levels of alpha acids in hops, which give beer its distinctive bitter flavour, are declining (Credit: Getty Images) Initially, hops were added as a preservative, not a flavouring.
When it comes to beer and health, “hops are the star of the show,” says Glen Fox, a professor of beer-brewing science at the University of California, Davis.
He grows hops, used to make beer, and in recent years has also been generating electricity, with solar panels sprawled across 1.3 hectares (32 acres) of his land in the small hop-making town of Au ...
Hop farming in B.C. dates back to the 1860s and peaked in the 1940s, when the province’s 2,000 acres of cultivation represented the largest hop-growing region in the British Commonwealth.