Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has been adding winter barley, a relatively ...

Both hops and barley have a notable effect on the finished product, but the barley is what's truly essential to most beers. The fact that today's conversations around beer focus on the hops is ...

Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has been adding winter barley, a relatively ...

This batch uses 20 bags of malted barley, fresh water, yeast, and just the right amount of hops, the flowering part of the Humulus lupulus plant that gives beer its bitter taste and aroma.

So, what do hops do, exactly? Beer is a combination of water, malt or barley, yeast, and hops. Whether it tastes bitter or not, every type of beer contains hops. Hops are a plant. They come from ...