One of the crops gaining popularity in Ohio is hops, which are used in the beer-making process, and the explosion of microbreweries across Ohio has greatly increased the demand for locally grown hops.

Dave Volkman was in Germany for a wedding about five years ago when he stumbled upon a possible new crop to try back home in Warren County. Volkman had grown produce for several years at his small ...

"There's enough of the pie for everyone," Mike said. Jenny puts it bluntly: "We need more growers." Into the late 1800s, the state had 25,000 to 30,000 acres of hops, the Napiers said. They became ...

When it's time to harvest the 1.5 acres in Medina County that Jenny Wagar Napier and her husband plant, it smells like hoppy beer. "It definitely smells like an IPA," Jenny said of the Cascade hops ...

WADSWORTH, Ohio -- Northeast Ohio is making a name for itself in the craft beer industry, and it's not just the beer bringing in money. There's a trickle-down effect, allowing everyone from bottlers ...

Hopwater comes in four flavors - original, ginger, lime and grapefruit. (Marc Bona, cleveland.com) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Thanks to an Ohio company, another avenue has opened for hopheads: Hopwater. This ...

Ohio’s booming craft-beer industry is creating a demand for locally grown hops, and Ohio State University researchers are working to make the key brewing ingredient available here. A century ago, hops ...

A century ago, Ohioans knew a thing or two about growing hop bines, but disease and Prohibition nudged hops off the state’s farms. The bines are coming back. Ohio will report a hop crop to the U.S.

One of the many pleasures of gardening is when a plant you’d given up for sterile proves you wrong. By now, assuming it’s still in your garden, the plant has earned its keep in other ways. Wisteria is ...

Jul. 6—One of RiverPark Center's key events will make its anticipated return this weekend. Hops on the Ohio, which has become known as one of Owensboro's biggest beer festivals, will grace the ...

Eastbound Ohio 63 at Route 4 was shut down for several hours Wednesday after an accident involving a semitruck carrying spent hops.The truck's trailer overturned around 1:30 p.m., spilling hops all ...