Flowers 2025
Fox Farm Brewery
- From:
- Fox Farm Brewery
- Connecticut, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.7%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.37 | pDev: 4.12%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 26, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 18, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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We are please to introduce Flowers Wet Hop IPA. Every September we travel to Yakima, WA to take in the year’s hop harvest, connect with growers and suppliers, and select lots for use in our beers over the year ahead. In the Pacific Northwest, where 98% of the nation’s hops are grown, fall ushers in an abundance of wet hop beers and in our travels, we’ve grown increasingly familiar with and fond of these fleeting, truly seasonal expressions of hops. Typically, when hops are picked they’re quickly sent to the kiln for drying and preservation…but if used (or frozen) within a day or so, brewers can bring the vibrant, unmistakable aromas of the hop fields to their beer.
Flowers is our first foray into this annual ritual and a beer we see evolving with each year’s harvest and our own growth and interests as brewers. On the hot side we added 80 lbs of New York-grown whole-cone Vista hops from Crooked Creek Hops/The Hop Guild - it’s a varietal we’ve come to love and the late-picked beauties from Chris’s farm in Addison made a beautiful impression on the beer.
The dry hop is largely designed around an innovative new product from our partners Yakima Chief called “Cryo Fresh”. Making use of their expertise in cryogenic processing of concentrated hop pellets, YCH realized they could use frozen, unkilned (this is key), whole-cone hops to create a new hop pellet that locks in harvest-fresh aromatics of wet hops in a form that, as brewers, we can more effectively incorporate in our beer. Flowers (2025) was dry hopped with Cryo Fresh Krush, Simcoe and Citra all grown by Loftus Ranches in the Yakima Valley along with further additions of NY Vista and Citra.
Flowers is our first foray into this annual ritual and a beer we see evolving with each year’s harvest and our own growth and interests as brewers. On the hot side we added 80 lbs of New York-grown whole-cone Vista hops from Crooked Creek Hops/The Hop Guild - it’s a varietal we’ve come to love and the late-picked beauties from Chris’s farm in Addison made a beautiful impression on the beer.
The dry hop is largely designed around an innovative new product from our partners Yakima Chief called “Cryo Fresh”. Making use of their expertise in cryogenic processing of concentrated hop pellets, YCH realized they could use frozen, unkilned (this is key), whole-cone hops to create a new hop pellet that locks in harvest-fresh aromatics of wet hops in a form that, as brewers, we can more effectively incorporate in our beer. Flowers (2025) was dry hopped with Cryo Fresh Krush, Simcoe and Citra all grown by Loftus Ranches in the Yakima Valley along with further additions of NY Vista and Citra.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by woodchipper from Connecticut
4.6/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.6/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Purchased cold today at the brewery and kept cold until severed. Poured to a pretentious tulip-like glass from the 16oz can dated 10/15/25 (10-days in the can).
The body pours out hazy bright gold, but passes light. The head is thick and full. After fading, lacing is very good. The lacing is super clingy and would probably stay there and dry to the glass if not cleaned.
The aroma immediately after pouring is like sniffing a glass of hop flowers, simply amazing. After those volatiles leave the smells fade to a “normal” beer hop smell. There is a slight onion background, but it is not annoying.
The taste is not flowery, ironically. But there is plenty of citrus and berry. Never sweet, but it starts mild and ends with a nice hop bitterness. Seconds after the swallow there is a sense of malt balance, oddly.
The mouthfeel is medium light. Carbonation is appropriate.
The pour aroma alone is worth the purchase of this beer. After that fades it's still damn good.
Oct 25, 2025The body pours out hazy bright gold, but passes light. The head is thick and full. After fading, lacing is very good. The lacing is super clingy and would probably stay there and dry to the glass if not cleaned.
The aroma immediately after pouring is like sniffing a glass of hop flowers, simply amazing. After those volatiles leave the smells fade to a “normal” beer hop smell. There is a slight onion background, but it is not annoying.
The taste is not flowery, ironically. But there is plenty of citrus and berry. Never sweet, but it starts mild and ends with a nice hop bitterness. Seconds after the swallow there is a sense of malt balance, oddly.
The mouthfeel is medium light. Carbonation is appropriate.
The pour aroma alone is worth the purchase of this beer. After that fades it's still damn good.
Reviewed by Jwale73 from Rhode Island
4.16/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.16/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
16oz can served in a willibecker. Pours a dull orange hue with a hazy clarity and a tight, 1/8th inch, off-white head embedded with pinpricks and tiny bubbles across the cap. Nose is lovely - piney, fresh and herbaceous. A lovely green smell reminiscent of the outdoors. Taste consistent with nose wiht the addition of a hint of crackery malts across the middle, and a medicinal/herbal finish. Mouthfeel is light-medium in body with an assertive carbonation. Overall, pleasant and immensley drinkable.
Oct 18, 2025
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