Brewers aren’t crying in their beer over hops shortage yet

Date November 12, 2008

By Jennifer Day – Toledo Blade

It was a year ago this month that the world began to learn of the great hops shortage of ought-7. Corn-loving farmers, seduced by the promise of ethanol, swept hops – not to mention barley – off of the American landscape. Then bad weather struck: Mother Nature trounced Europe’s hops harvest, tipping off a worldwide shortage…. (read more here on ToledoBlade.com)

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