Growing up in Santa Rosa, Florian Dauenhauer had no idea his lifelong hobby of tinkering would one day save his struggling business and revolutionize an industry. When Dauenhauer and his brother Joe ...

SALEM — Peter Weathers stooped to pick up a green, pine cone-like hop flower. Weathers and his sister, Erica Lorentz, stood inside a warehouse that carried the pungent scent of fresh-harvested mosaic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Joe Amon,The Denver Post Victorina Sanchez picks pieces of stem and leaves from the output of the huge picking machine that separates the hops from the bine ...

CAZENOVIA, NY -- Inside a former chicken house on a farm in Cazenovia stands a 5 1/2 ton mechanical monstrosity. The metal plate giving details on the machine is written in German. It's a hop ...