Something this grievous couldn't wait for Friday's Brews You Can Use:
About 4 percent of all hops in the USA went up in flames [on Tuesday]. Most of the country's crop is grown in Washington's Yakima Valley, where a 40,000-foot warehouse fire consumed rather a lot of the essential beer-brewing ingredient on Monday. AP says: "By mid-afternoon, flames engulfed most of the building, sending up plumes of smoke and a pungent aroma."
