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UF study taps into flourishing Florida craft beer market


January 27, 2025

In the past decade, the Florida craft beer industry has experienced explosive growth, expanding from 66 to 396 breweries – a sixfold increase. A new Ask IFAS study from UF/IFAS food and resource economics department researchers provides a ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Ask IFAS, Beer, Brewery, Consumer Engagement, Craft Beer, Customers, Demographics, Economics, Food And Resource Economics Department, FRED, IFAS, Industry, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Market, Marketing, Megan Winslow, Meri Hambaryan, Nathan Palardy, Survey, UF, UF/IFAS, University Of Florida

UF scientists meeting craft brewer demand by converting hops to pellets


June 12, 2024

Many craft brewers prefer to make their product using hops pellets because of several advantages they provide over whole cone hops. To address a request by Tampa Bay-area craft brewers, University of Florida scientists are converting the crop ... READ MORE

Category: SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Breeding, Brewers Association, Brewery, Cones, Craft Beer, Field Trials, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Harvest, Hops, LED Lighting, Pelletizer, Pellets, Shinsuke Agehara, Spring Hops Field Day, Zhanao Deng

Brewers, craft beer enthusiasts reap flavor of UF hops research


October 10, 2023

As you watch workers use chainsaws to cut down the bines of hop cones for this year’s fall harvest, you can almost sense the craft beer the hops will eventually produce. Last week, scientists at the University of Florida Gulf Coast Research ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Brewery, Craft Beer, Environmental Horticulture, Fall Harvest, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Hops, Hops Field Day, Horticultural Sciences, LED Lighting, Locally Grown, Shinsuke Agehara, Zhanao Deng

As the popularity of craft beer keeps soaring, a Florida brewer praises UF hops research


June 7, 2023

Lucas Frank started brewing beer at home in 2010 and in 2019, decided to change careers after working in health care for 20 years. He established his own business, Hiatus Brewing, in Ocala in 2019. To make your own beer, you need hops. That’s ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Brewery, Cascade, Craft Beer, Florida-grown, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Hops, Hops Field Day, LED Lighting, Lucas Frank, Research, Shinsuke Agehara, Zhanao Deng

Brewers savor the candy flavor of some Florida-grown hops


June 7, 2022

Brewers like the flavor and aroma that come from Florida-grown Cascade hops, says a University of Florida Extension agent. They say it tastes a little like candy. Matt Smith admits his sample size is small thus far – only seven brewers ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness
Tags: Aroma, Brewers, Cascade, Craft Beer, Flavor, Florida-grown, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Hops, LED Lighting, Matt Smith, Plant Breeding, Tampa Bay, Trials, UF/IFAS Extension, Zhanao Deng

Tasty craft beer brewed from UF/IFAS-grown hops


October 20, 2021

BALM, Fla. --- If you hopped over to the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center and tasted the craft beer made from hops grown by scientists at the University of Florida, you’d notice it’s a little bitter, but researchers and brewers say ... READ MORE

Category: Crops
Tags: Acid, Aroma, Bitter, Craft Beer, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Hops, Hops Field Day, Shinsuke Agehara, Taste, Varieties, Zhanao Deng

Interest in UF/IFAS Hops Experiment Grows


December 3, 2019

BALM, Fla. --- Tampa Bay microbreweries have a hankering for hops, and some see a University of Florida experimental farm as a source for the crop that will help quench their customers’ thirsts. Several Tampa Bay area breweries have come ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE
Tags: Craft Beer, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Hops, Horticultural Sciences, LED Lights, Microbreweries, Shinsuke Agehara, Tampa Bay, Trellis

UF/IFAS Hopping Along With Brew Crop, Despite Root-Knot Nematode Finding


June 28, 2018

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida scientists believe they can control some nematodes that can harm or even kill plants as they try to grow hops to help quench the ever-growing demand for craft beer. Zhanao Deng, a professor of environmental ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Craft Beer, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Hops, Johan Desaeger, Nematodes, News, Root-knot Nematodes, Shinshuke Agehara, Zhanao Deng