Hops
John I. Haas
Yakima, Washington, USA
01
The role
What they make
Grower, breeder and processor of hops; the American arm of the BarthHaas group and a major hop-variety breeding programme.
02
Tally's take
Why it matters
Most of the hop varieties in a modern IPA came out of a breeding programme, not a wild field. Haas runs one of the ones that decided what the last twenty years tasted like.