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Man accused of stabbing wife, male acquaintance
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Police say a Sioux Falls man is accused of stabbing his wife and her male acquaintance in an early morning attack on Sunday.
• Officers were dispatched to the scene at about 4:30 a.m. and found the woman with three stab wounds to her chest and stomach.
• Police say the suspect was being restrained by the woman's male companion when officers arrived.
• Police say the suspect had been waiting in a nearby car lot armed with two knives. Police say he came sprinting across the lot as the woman and her companion got out of a vehicle.
• Police say the male acquaintance was stabbed in the shoulder but was able to restrain his attacker.
• Police say none of the injuries to the woman or her companion appeared to be life-threatening.
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Spearfish man experimenting with hops method
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Spearfish entrepreneur is developing a method to flash freeze fresh hops instead of the traditional drying of the beer ingredient before freezing the buds.
• Hops are used by home, craft and commercial brewers to add bitterness, taste and aroma to the potent potable.
• Steve Polley, of Dakota Hops, said early tests of the method are showing higher alpha and beta acids than with first drying the hops. The acids are key measures to determine the hops' potency.
• "It makes beer with more flavor and more aroma," Polley said. "You're freezing all the acids and all the oils."
• Hops have been used in beer for centuries, but home and craft brewers over the past 30 years have developed an affinity for high-hopped beers, labeling them with such creative names as Modus Hoperandi, Hopportunity Knocks and Hoptimus Prime. Beer connoisseurs measure a brew's bitterness in IBUs, an acronym for international bittering units.
• Polley, who since 2008 has been working off of four USDA-state agriculture research grants totaling about, has been experimenting with the method using hops collected from small research plots in Rapid City and the Newell-Nisland area. He had been growing them and giving them fresh to local brewers to tinker with and (Continued on page 16)
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