Have you ever wondered how beer is made and what ingredients are used in this most refreshing beverage? One key element is hops — a cone-shaped flower of the plant (Humulus lupulus) in the ...

Cannabidiol enthusiasm is reaching a fever pitch in Colorado. Consumers snarf CBD down in doughnuts, slurp it up with CBD-infused lattes, lather it on with lotions, gulp it down in capsules and, of ...

There are some fields so vast that they seem to stretch beyond the horizon. The long rows, punctuated with tall trellises that coax miles and miles of bright green hops (Humulus lupulus) skyward, are ...

Steeped in folklore and tradition, hops have been around for centuries. This hemp relative was introduced into New England from Europe in 1629. Most hop production eventually moved to the Pacific ...

DURING investigations on the rate of colonization of wilt-sensitive and wilt-tolerant hop varieties by mild and virulent hop isolates of Verticillium albo-atrum Reinke and Berthold, conidia were found ...

Hops (Humulus lupulus) are more commonly associated with making beer than medical applications. With beer, the flower cones of the hop plant are used or flavoring and as a stability agent. In terms of ...

The herbaceous, perennial hop plant is best known as a component of beer that adds a bitter flavor, but it can also be used in nonalcoholic beverages and herbal medicine, and it can be grown here in ...

Inquiring readers might wonder why a teetotaler would purchase this particular vine from among invasive plants. My excuse is that as a beginning gardener, I was very much into herbs, and hops once ...

Are you having a green beer to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Green beer must be in the vegetable group of the food pyramid, right? Sorry, it’s only food coloring ...