The two largest hop growing areas in the United States are in the Willamette and Yakima valleys, which has made the Pacific Northwest a beer destination. From mid-August to late September, local brewe ...

The hop harvest leverages more machinery than corn or peaches, mostly because the cones have to be processed using specialized equipment before they’re sold. Still, tools like the pelletizer ...

So, Obendorf and the other local growers cashing in on the hops boom are growing more of it. He says they'll harvest as much as 22,000 bales of hops, "It's 4,000 ton. Yeah. It makes a lot of beer." ...

Lehnert will be brewing a local harvest IPA using the hops and honey from local producer, Angel Fairy Honey Company. He needed to pick 12 pounds for the recipe since the hops were wetter and fresher.

But during the brief hop harvest, Oregon and Washington brewers fill trunks and backseats with just-picked hops and dash home to brew once-a-year beers that some compare to the Beaujolais nouveau.

That's a ratio that's roughly 20% usable product to 80% waste. Some of the hops waste can be used for fertilizers, and a portion can be sold to biogas plants to produce energy.

Hops ride on a conveyer belt shortly after being harvested on the second day of hop harvest at CLS Farms Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, in Moxee, Wash.

At least 30 hop bines were growing on the location, with Philadelphia Brewing Co. hoping to harvest around 60 pounds of hops or more for this year’s batch of Harvest From the Hood.

Hop Harvest & Vine, located adjacent to Good Harvest Market, has created an outdoor space overlooking their 17-acre nature conservation area with a beer garden that has seating for over 100 visitors.

A startup called HopfON — a play on Hopfen, the German word for hops — and a research society in Bavaria are seeking to solve the problem of waste created during the hops harvest in Germany.

HopfON entrepreneur, Mauricio Fleischer Acuna poses in Munich, Germany, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. The startup is using the organic waste, some from the hops harvest, to make sustainable building ...