Hope for hops

by Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake
| March 15, 2013 11:51 AM

The commercial hops field trial at the Britz Ranch near Whitefish will use a trellis system with 18-foot poles similar to this one shown at a hops field in Austria. The local research aims to determine if commercial varieties of hops favored by craft beer brewers can be successfully grown in Western Montana. (©iStockphoto.com/tepic)