Fresh Hop 2019

YES! I've been waiting to see if it would come back this year. I loved this setup at Burnside.

 

My parents are currently in Pittsburgh, they grabbed me a growler of Cinderlands' fresh hop version of their Incredible Sky kveik DIPA. Awwww yeah.

 

FH Juice Box at Grape Lotion.

This is impressive. A hop bomb through and through

 

Had a layover yesterday and managed to have a glass of HM's cone & cone. was delicious. bummed I couldn't get any other FH beers. I will say that it smelled like heaven in there, as I kept getting huge wafts of hops consistently while sitting at the bar.

 

A lot of FH hazies, the hops get lost in the haze. This one is not shy. I’m not a huge haze fan, but this was very good and great FH representation

 

What Fresh Breast with Amarillo is on tap at Milwaukie and making its way out into the world very soon. This one is intense and lives up to its name.

 

New Fresh Hop Pilsner from Occidental with Crystal. Waaaay more grassy and vegetal notes than the first version but still quite good.

 

Anyone looking to trek to St. John’s MUST taste Occidental’s new variant of FH Pilsner. This is the most prominent FH character i’ve gotten on both nose and palate since FH Workhorse 2 years ago. Don’t miss it.

 

How’s it taste as a “Pilsner”? I loved the keller HM and Varietal did last year, would love to see more of this variation.

 

It honestly reminded me a bit of a kellerbier in the sense that the density of the FH character almost gives it that unfiltered appearance and mouthfeel. But man, the nose on this beer is incredible.

 

Found FHs at Backpedal (BMX Session IPA) and Backwoods in the Pearl (single hop Mosiac Pale) last night. I enjoyed both. Backpedal also had a FH pineapple wheat which I opted to avoid.

 

any fresh hop stuff in Eugene i should know about?? heading down tomorrow for the day

 

Breakside is the featured brewery at the Fresh Hop Pop Up tonight. The taplist looks delicious:

• Breakside: Fresh Gold (Strata)
• Breakside: Fresh Hop IPA (Simcoe)
• Breakside: Fresh Hop Pils (Sterling)
• Breakside: Fresh Hop Griselda Kolsch (Sterling)
• Breakside: Fresh Trap Hazy IPA (Chinook)
• Breakside: What Fresh Beast hazy IPA (Mosaic)
• Breakside: Fresh Double-Dry Hopped Stay West IPA (Amarillo and Cascade)

The Fresh Hop Pils, What Fresh Beast, and Fresh DDH Stay West have my complete attention. I will be tracking those down soonish.

 

Worth noting that most of these are on Draft at the Dekum location where I am at now.

Griselda - Meh
Gold - liked this better the second time around
Pilsner (Stirling) - Just Fine.
Fresh Trap Amarillo - really enjoyed this
DDFH Stay West - Enjoyed this even more.
What Fresh Beast - One of the best Fresh Hop beers I've had all year.

So in short, Breakside is really damn good at their Fresh Hop IPA's.

Also of note, Fresh Hop Wanderlust will be releasing mid next week.

 

Grabbed a bottle of Silver City's Wet Hop Tropic Haze and a can of Matchless' Easy Being Green today. Holy Mountain put their Strata FH IPA on tap, I'll try to stop by on Sunday for a pint. Not going anywhere near that place tomorrow with the Midnight Still variant release.

 

I just got the latest newsletter from Block 15, and it looks like they're finally getting in on the fresh hop action:

Fresh Catch Fresh Hopped Pale Ale - A fresh-hopped pale ale brewed with Willamette Valley Amarillo fresh hops that we picked up at the hop farm hours before adding them to a custom "hop back" tank, which we then pumped hot wort through on its way to the fermenter, extracting vibrant notes of orange marmalade, resinous herbs, and ripe citrus.

RELEASING 9/27 @ BOTH BLOCK 15 LOCATIONS
ALSO DISTRIBUTED TO ACCOUNTS AROUND THE PNW

 

Not sure if that was what I had, but I had a FH occidental pils in Seattle last week and it wasn't good.