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Hop Quality Group The Hop Quality Group advocates for all craft brewers not just members in the maintenance and improvement of hop quality in addition to developing and sharing useful information about the quality characteristics of hops. Oils over alpha The Hop Quality Group is a collection of craft brewers that came together organically to continue to foster a discussion on hop quality. The focus was then to bring that discussion to the hop community including dealers growers and processors to highlight the needs of todays craft brewers The HQG held its first meeting in 2010 at the MBAA conference in Providence. In 2011 the HQG was incorporated as a California Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation.