Wet Hops Around the Twin Cities 2015

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  1. KarlHungus

    KarlHungus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,315) Feb 19, 2005 Minnesota
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    I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread to track when and where our locally brewed wet hop beers are being tapped, and a place to talk about the virtues/detractors of each.

    Day Block tapped their wet hops beer last week. I liked it quite a bit. It is 100% centennial hops, has a strong bitterness throughout, and an ample amount of juicy, greeny, citrusy wet hop character on the front end. It isn't the wettest tasting we hop beer I've ever drank, but it is certainly discernible as a wet hop beer.
     
    #1 KarlHungus, Sep 2, 2015
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  2. iRun2Beer

    iRun2Beer Initiate (0) Jan 27, 2015 Minnesota

    Any others around the TC? I'm normally not the biggest fan of Day Block, but I think I'll make a point to stop in when I'm out and about tonight.
     
    #2 iRun2Beer, Sep 3, 2015
  3. jsdavis422

    jsdavis422 Zealot (627) May 15, 2012 Minnesota

    This is a great thread idea... my favorite time of year and with all the new breweries I am sure there will be a ton of different ones.
     
    #3 jsdavis422, Sep 3, 2015
  4. iRun2Beer

    iRun2Beer Initiate (0) Jan 27, 2015 Minnesota

    Fair State brewed It's Gold, Jerry! 2 days ago, and posted some picks to Instagram.

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    #4 iRun2Beer, Sep 3, 2015
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  5. capturejack

    capturejack Initiate (0) Feb 20, 2013 Minnesota

    From Indeed's email this morning:

    BLINK-AND-YOU'LL-MISS-IT: WET HOP ALE
    Not to be outdone by the slew of new beers and returning favorites, our Wet Hop Ale is slated to be back in late September-early October, depending on the delivery of our freshly harvested Mosaic hops. Stay tuned with us on social media for more info on this fresh, fragrant, fleeting ale!
     
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  6. jsdavis422

    jsdavis422 Zealot (627) May 15, 2012 Minnesota

    Man I am so glad I love mosaic, with Axe Man, Sosus, batch 300, and now this its like a mosiac paradise here in the twin cities!
     
    #6 jsdavis422, Sep 3, 2015
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  7. iRun2Beer

    iRun2Beer Initiate (0) Jan 27, 2015 Minnesota

    Bad Weather brewed their first ever wet hopped beer August 31st. From Twitter:

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    #7 iRun2Beer, Sep 3, 2015
  8. sembo

    sembo Initiate (0) Feb 1, 2014 Minnesota
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  9. mikevanatta

    mikevanatta Initiate (0) Sep 29, 2014 Minnesota

    NEED.
     
    #9 mikevanatta, Sep 3, 2015
  10. morimech

    morimech Grand Pooh-Bah (3,803) Nov 6, 2006 Minnesota
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    The best wet hop beer I had last year was Lucid's Foto Fresh. Hope I can get another growler this year.
     
    #10 morimech, Sep 3, 2015
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  11. Rajaholick

    Rajaholick Zealot (678) Jan 9, 2011 Ohio
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    Any of these being released labor day weekend?
     
    #11 Rajaholick, Sep 3, 2015
  12. KarlHungus

    KarlHungus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,315) Feb 19, 2005 Minnesota
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    Any new sightings in the past few days?
     
    #12 KarlHungus, Sep 9, 2015
  13. jsdavis422

    jsdavis422 Zealot (627) May 15, 2012 Minnesota

    Fulton posted on twitter they harvested a bu ch of MN grown cascade hops.
     
    #13 jsdavis422, Sep 9, 2015
  14. KarlHungus

    KarlHungus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,315) Feb 19, 2005 Minnesota
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    I'm still a bit skeptical of all these Minnesota grown hops. It takes a few years for hop vine to produce a quality of hops suitable for brewing. Over the past couple years I've had more than a few locally sourced wet hop beers from breweries that usually produce good beer that have been mediocre at best. It makes me think some of these hop farms might be selling hops that are too young to be brewed with successfully. Or maybe I've just had some bad wet hop beers.
     
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  15. jsdavis422

    jsdavis422 Zealot (627) May 15, 2012 Minnesota

    And it's cascade... I am not exactly jumping up and down over a cascade wet hopped beer. Just not super exciting to me personally.
     
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  16. CurtFromHershey

    CurtFromHershey Initiate (0) Oct 4, 2012 Minnesota

    I brewed a wet hop cascade pale ale this weekend, and the aroma coming out of the airlock is unreal. I wouldn't sleep on Minnesotan Cascades just yet.
     
    #16 CurtFromHershey, Sep 9, 2015
  17. KarlHungus

    KarlHungus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,315) Feb 19, 2005 Minnesota
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    The shitty thing about hop farming is that the new varieties that we all love (Citra, ect) are still under patent which makes it cost prohibitive for start up farms to plant them. A professional brewer friend of mine who I was talking to about this very subject the other day told me the fee to plant Citra is $30,000. Thus, we are stuck with a lot of Cascade and Centenial wet hop beers.
     
    #17 KarlHungus, Sep 9, 2015
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  18. jsdavis422

    jsdavis422 Zealot (627) May 15, 2012 Minnesota

    I am always willing to keep an open mind and I could be very wrong... But the few cascade wet hop beers I have had in the past just aren't as much my thing.
     
    #18 jsdavis422, Sep 9, 2015
  19. KarlHungus

    KarlHungus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,315) Feb 19, 2005 Minnesota
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    Same here. Cascades are normally used as flavoring/aromatic hops, and give a beer little bitterness. I could see them doing well in something like the fresh hop pilsner that Schell's brewed last year, but not so well in either an IPA of APA in which an assertive bitterness is needed. I would, however, love to be proven wrong about the latter.
     
    #19 KarlHungus, Sep 9, 2015
  20. sean_mpls

    sean_mpls Initiate (0) Sep 11, 2012 Minnesota

    Not really. You would just have to add more if the AA% is lower relative to higher AA varieties.

    Also, wet hops are typically employed post-boil so this wouldn't really matter. I believe many of these beers still get a traditional bittering charge.
     
    #20 sean_mpls, Sep 9, 2015
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