Stretching skyward like mythical giant beanstocks, hops climb steel-supported trellises in the chaparral and oak-wooded hills east of Clearlake. Fifty years after the last commercially grown hops ...

ELMIRA, Ore. (AP) - Out on a former cattle ranch in the foothills of the Coast Range, Norman Vidoni has taken a great leap - or maybe that should be hop - of faith. A dedicated home brewer with no ...

One day last winter, as I was rushing to Skaneateles, I looked to the right and saw an interesting sight. On a Sennett hill, a mile or so before the Onondaga-Cayuga county line, was what looked like a ...