Colorado Proud brew should be ready to drink in three weeks A sweet and calming aroma filled the air in front of Steamworks Brewing Co. on Wednesday morning as a mobile hop harvester stripped cones ...

CAZENOVIA, NY -- Inside a former chicken house on a farm in Cazenovia stands a 5 1/2 ton mechanical monstrosity. The metal plate giving details on the machine is written in German. It's a hop ...

Tom Britz recently introduced the newest member to the Glacier Hops Ranch team — a 10,000-pound hops harvester named Hildegaard. The harvester is straight off the boat, shipped over a few weeks ago ...

MUNNSVILLE -- With no viable options for harvesting their crop of hops, Foothill Hops Farm owners Kate and Larry Fisher created one. For their ingenuity in creating a hops harvester and their ...

GRANGER, Wash. - At the base of a big yellow hop harvester, somewhere above the front wheels, workers shove vines through a hole about the size of a baseball. Unseen machinery slurps them through, ...

A Native American hop picker, circa 1930. Native Americans have a long history of harvesting hops and other crops in the Willamette Valley and contributing to making the Willamette Valley known by the ...