When fresh aren't available, the hops are made into pellets and packaged for shipment. Some breweries, like Lagunitas, will have hops quickly brought to them as soon as they're harvested to ...

The hops boil for roughly an hour to release their alpha acids; drying hop cones into pellet form concentrates the alpha acids for a more robust flavor. Hops added into the batch later in the ...

a harvesting machine and conversion of a former milking parlor — where additional machines will reduce the hops to vacuum-packed pellets that can be frozen for up to three years. Since it will ...