Growing hop plants in Ireland

Sep 18, 2011, 08:01 PM

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There's been something of a rejuvenation in hop growing in Ireland. While the last commercial hop grower, Simon Mosse in Kilkenny, tells Ella McSweeney why he stopped supplying Guinness a decade ago, Cuilan Loughnane of Tipperary explains why he started his own hop crop for his microbrewery, White Gypsy.

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