For the second year in a row, Oregon is looking at a drop in hop acreage, and there’s also a decline in craft beer sales.
SALEM, Ore. — For the second year in a row, Oregon is seeing a big drop in its hop harvest by nearly 20% this year — and also down? Craft beer sales.
The harvest hasn’t even started yet at Sodbuster Farms near Salem, and Doug Weathers, the CEO and president of his family-run hop farm, already knows it’s not going to be a good one.
“We have 70 acres that are just lying on the ground not being
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