date:May 14, 2014
ur hops favoured by craft brewers to about $7 to $10 a pound over the past five years the highest since 2007-08 when the market was hit by a severe drought.
Craft beers use between four to 10 times more hops than the average lager produced by multinational beer companies and are often described as hop bombs.
I've been buying hops for 30 years. It's more challenging now than just about any time in my career, says Steve Dresler, brewmaster at California-based Sierra Nevada, a leading craft brew