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my growler article from last november: FREE THE HOPS! REBECCA WHYMAN •  NOVEMBER 24, 2017 iStock photo Of the four ingredients in beer, hops are the New World’s contribution. It seems rather fitting then, that North America has its economic paws  allll  over hops. Trademarks, patents, royalties – how are these business-y things having their way with our beloved hops? It must be big beer’s fault! I understand why you’d want to make hops proprietary – it takes time, effort and money to painstakingly develop a new hop, test it eight ways to Sunday, and devote acreage to propagating it. It can take 15-20 years before any money starts coming in, and then on only a fraction of your experiments. But do you really need 20 years of royalties to recoup that investment? Off the backs of your growers and the lovely brewers who exalt your wonder-hop? C’mon, only big beer would do such a greedy thing. Experimental breeding has brought us wonder-hops that can do it all: h...

after a little stout with fuggles cask at the yaletown brewpub tonight followed by a good-bye party at st. augustine's i will be off to portland for the long weekend! crazily enough though, my excursion is not beer-related nope, i'm going there to play soccer beer will be consumed, both on the field and off but it is not the goal of the trip so who knows what i'll end up drinking!?

fuggles! what a great word! the cask last night at the railway club was howe sound's best bitter dry-hopped with fuggles not bad, not bad at all! and i got to say fuggles several times