Fresh Hops (2024)

Forecast for HB this weekend…wet & hoppy.

 

Out of curiosity, how much are the 4packs for this one?

 

Green Cheek posted on IG stories today they are brewing a Mosaic fh beer in collab w balebreaker and yakima chief.

Not sure if they split the hops w other breweries or not but this will be the first non Strata fh beer brewed in socal that I'm aware of. Cannot wait!

 

$18. But there going fast

 

burgeon usually does a mosaic one

 

I sure wish more norcal brewers would jump on the wet hop train. Hopefully you southlanders can build the hype and convince the northern brewers to get in on it

 

I guess it must just be me, but I had Stratacaster (Riip) and ASAP as possible, both on draft from the source, about an hour apart, and didn't decide to get cans of either. I wasn't getting much on the aroma and the flavor wasn't really anything special for me either. If anything, I'd say they were both a bit more muted than the other great IPAs I tried at both locations. Single Fidens is drinking miiiighty smooth.

 

I’ve been checking their website for the release, but I’m probably not going to bother on ordering any as the shipping cost is out of this world. I did order the last 2 years. Not happy with their shipping cost. So I’m going to pass this year. I’m hoping Radiant comes out with their fresh hop this year. I know Beachwood has not released any fresh hop the last several years or maybe never.

 

TGIF ASAP.a.P

 

Yeah! What's up with that?

 

No idea. I know that at least Russian river does a couple but they don't send them out. And moonlight always has some that release super weirdly late in the season. Ghost Town seems to be the most on top of it with two wet hop beers the last couple years and both of them getting at least limited distribution.

But beyond that it seems mighty quiet for the area that's closest to the hop growing regions and which also has its own hop yards (Russian River and Moonlight both advertise all Sonoma hops and there's a place called Alexander Valley Hops that has like 2 or 3 acres under cultivation and was saying last year their plan was to sell all their hops wet).

 

First FH of the season for me. Canned 9/9

 

Maybe it’s because we get the wet hops but they get the fresh hops for the [insert naming preference here] beers.

*edit: I don’t think this joke is going to land, and it’s not worth trying to explain. Nothing to see here...

 

You tried. And that's what counts

 

The fresh hops are wet once they’re added to the… ah, forget it.

 

ISM just dropped their fresh wet hop, Fresh Hop Swell Cutter. Looks like it’s only on tap at the source and Windsor & Brown.