The common hop plant, or Humulus lupulus ... When fresh aren't available, the hops are made into pellets and packaged for shipment. Some breweries, like Lagunitas, will have hops quickly brought ...

Hops are a plant. They come from the perennial Humulus ... The hops boil for roughly an hour to release their alpha acids; drying hop cones into pellet form concentrates the alpha acids for ...

Winklosky noted the hop plant, whose green cones add a pleasingly ... where additional machines will reduce the hops to vacuum-packed pellets that can be frozen for up to three years.