Business Week

Business Week Features Hager Hops COOPERSTOWN – In this week’s edition, Business Week is featuring Hager Hops, the dirt-to-tap undertaking now being implemented by the Hager family, Anheuser-Busch heirs.  Here’s how it starts: “Strolling among rows of hops on a lush hillside in Cooperstown, N.Y., discussing soil quality and irrigation, Alicia and Louis Hager sound more like the farmers they’ve become than Busch beer royalty. The bines (that’s not a typo; these climbers are not vines) that produce the conelike…