Fresh Hop 2020

That's my understanding. Preferably only a few hours or less.

Not to my knowledge. At least not around here.

 

Better let breakside know There's also this little startup out of chico (or maybe their from mills river, NC?) that hasn't gotten the memo either

 

Ya that was my impression on what the hop wranglers shoot for as well. I've only ever air dried the hops I've grown and never brewed with them. With small amounts, air drying seems to work fine and I would think might even be able to make a superior product? Mostly because lower temps preserve more volatiles. But that's not possible at a commercial scale. I'll make it up to hop harvest season one of these years so I can pester the professionals directly with my questions and unsolicited advice

 

Well I guess I don’t know about flash frozen hops using nitroglycerin or crystal meth or whatever the fuck. Some techniques are so new that we might need to amend the rule book. Traditionally, my understanding is that fresh = the time it takes to drive (or fly) from where the hops are picked to where the beer is brewed, but under no conditions more than 24 hours.

 

One of our locals made a beet called "fresh frozen cold IPA", I thought it was just like a weed pun or something but this reminds me that I should ask if its made using break sides technique of getting the hops addicted to crystal meth before tossing them in the brew (at least that's what some guy on the internet told me they do). It was a pretty disjointed beer though so I shant be getting more either way. At least if it was made with fresh hops I could add that to the bottom of my short list of beers this season

 

Just opened a can of Pleasure Race from Mirage, courtesy of @distantmantra. This was on my short list to try this season so I'm glad I was able to get a can. Cheers!

 

Now having a can of HFOFH before dinner. Fremont doesn’t suck at making beer.

 

Heard a rumor Whistle Punk has a fh IPA on now. Am off work and am heading downtown to investigate.

 

Wetwired isn’t here yet. It’s not over.

 

Fremont Session Pale was pretty close to a year round non-FH Cowiche variant. Too bad I’m the only one who bought it before they quietly discontinued it.

 

False alarm, apparently. Perhaps Matt just got a little too excited. Consoling myself with their outstanding Helles, working my way up to their new Weizenbock.

 

Not gonna lie: those sound like tasty consolations.

 

Behave, you two! Move this nonsense about helles and weizenbocks out of the fresh hop thread!

 

Going off-topic
Is how we stay on-topic
Northwest forum style

 

FH Pallet Jack back on tap at Belmont Station...... interesting

Brothers Cascadia releasing Freshest Day Ever (FH Best day ever) with sabro and el dorado hops

Ex Novo just released FH Cozy Chaos WC IPA. on tap at Beaverton....maybe NE as well??


also checked out Culmination's taplist and it looks like they have a few FH beers on right now as well. anybody had them yet?? FH Phaedrus has been a winner in previous years and would love to run across it this year.


the hits keep comin!

 

A haiku for this?
Odd communication choice.
But I respect that.

 

de Garde is not messing around with their fresh hops offerings this year - instead of just The Frais they are doing three different versions of it!