Declining beer consumption worldwide is hurting German hop growers, who face lower prices and possible farm closures amid a dip in demand for the bitter crop. Felix Kästle/dpa Declining beer ...

But if those contracts start to expire in the next few years, hop growers could face further problems. Good weather helped buoy the 2024 hops crop in Germany, which brought in 46,536 tonnes.

The fifth-generation sustainable grower and processor of the essential beer ingredient created the CGX cryogenic lupulin pellet, a patent-pending product made by flash-freezing hop cones.

The statewide festival – hosted locally by Rusty Nickel Brewing and presented by Hop Growers of New York (HGNY), with support from the Western New York Brewers Guild – is considered the ...

There are now just 45 hop growers, and only 2,000 acres of hops in the UK, and the total acreage dedicated to growing hops used in our traditional British beers has halved in size in the last decade.

Asahi UK and the Worshipful Company of Brewers have teamed up with the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and the University of Warwick to fund two PhD research projects looking at British hop ...