Hops shortage coming to a head

Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current);  January 1, 2008 ;     261 words ......because of a severe shortage of hops and malted barley. Charlie...president of the Boulder-based Brewers Association and founder of the Association...Papazian said. The price of hops has more than doubled. Meanwhile...Group's office in Denver. Hops are a bittering agent for...breweries ...

Hops shortage coming to a head.(News)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  January 1, 2008 ;     265 words ......because of a severe shortage of hops and malted barley. Charlie...president of the Boulder-based Brewers Association and founder of the Association...Papazian said. The price of hops has more than doubled. Meanwhile...Group's office in Denver. Hops are a bittering agent for...breweries ...

HOPS ARE HOT

La Crosse Tribune;  April 12, 2008 ;     612 words ......Todd Krueger. The price of hops has climbed as muchas fivefold...factors helped create the hops shortage. Large brewers reduced the amount of hops in their beers, while processing...techniques made more efficient hops. This drove down prices...Northwest, where most domestic hops are ...

Hops Shortage Likely to Boost Price of Beer

NPR Morning Edition;  November 13, 2007 ;     613 words ......Morning Edition 11-13-2007 Hops Shortage Likely to Boost...there is a shortage of hops, the flavoring agent in...is the director of the Brewers Association, a trade group that represents...this year's shortage of hops. Mr. PAUL GATZA (Director, Brewers Association): I was with ...

Co-ops for hops

Isthmus;  November 7, 2008 ;     637 words ......Tyranena Brewery spent around $30,000 on hops. This year Rob Larson, the brewmaster and owner, says hts bill for hops will approach $140,000. Increasingly...needs a way to control supply and cost of hops and barley," says Jon Reynolds of BrewPlan...

The Brewers Association of Maryland Brews More Than Just Great Beer.

PR Newswire;  June 23, 2004 ;     426 words ......23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brewers Association of Maryland (B.A.M...including Barley & Hops, Baltimore Washington...the organization. The Brewers Association of Maryland is a non...information about the Brewers Association of Maryland please visit...mooreamarketing.com, for ...

Henry B. King Dies at 84; Brewers Association Chief [Correction 5/3/ 05]

The Washington Post;  April 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ......former president of the United States Brewers Association and the recipient of a Silver Star...Washington during his tenure with the brewers association and kept a house in the area until...became president of the United States Brewers Association, a trade group representing ...

Sam Adams shares hops after shortage

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  April 3, 2008 ;     369 words ......it." Koch said the company looked at its supply of hops and decided to live up a long established culture among...said the shortage became acute last year when the 2007 hops crop came in below average, the third bad season in a row for hops. In addition, increased beer consumption has increased demand ...

Hops skip into the shortage zone, jump in price

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  October 11, 2007 ;     431 words ......The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-11-2007 Hops skip into the shortage zone, jump in price...rephrase an old ad jingle, when you're out of hops, you're out of beer. Craft brewers are...harvest resulted in fewer and poorer-quality hops, deficient in alpha acids, hops' primary...

Paris farm revives hops farming

Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  July 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......try. So, on the whim of a man who until recently had never even seen a hops plant, commercial hops growing has returned to Maine. The crop was once common in the East. "Hops used to grow in almost every farmer's backyard," said John Harker, at the...

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA BIOLOGY PROFESSOR, RESEARCHER FROM BELGIUM...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 14, 2008 ;     520 words ......The challenge of genetically modifying hops plants to produce more of a potentially...Belgium, had isolated critical genes from hops, but needed a transformation system to...perfecting a transformation system for hops. "We welcome collaborations such as these...

Brewery shares scarce hops with competitors: ; Boston Beer distributed...

Charleston Daily Mail;  April 4, 2008 ;     535 words ......ourselves." Koch said the company looked at its supply of hops and decided to live up to a long established culture...said the shortage became acute last year when the 2007 hops crop came in below average, the third bad season in a row for hops. In addition, increased beer consumption has increased ...

Low hops a quaffing matter

Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.;  November 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......when he went to place his standard order of Cascade hops. Those hops go a long way to define the distinctive flowery character...available and that he might be able to get substitute hops - if he was lucky. His only hope: getting on a hops waiting list with about 200 other breweries. ...

In the Yakima Valley, the wine-grapes are sweet and the hops...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 6, 2001 ;     700+ words ......going. But a few miles away, 20-foot poles that supported trellises used for growing hops stand like sentries around fallow ground. It's not a good year for hops. Hops and grapes are at opposite ends of the farming spectrum in the valley. They share...

Richard Doyle, co-founder of Harpoon Brewery, will open the Brewers...

Beverage Industry;  December 1, 2007 ;     57 words ......Doyle, co-founder of Harpoon Brewery, will open the Brewers Association's 25th annual Craft Brewers Conference with a keynote address in San Diego, on April 15. The Brewers Association expects more than 1,600 brewers, brewery owners...