Fresh Hops (2024)

Where did you pick up the Breakside fh? I know TWnM gets their cans. But haven’t been inside a twnm in years. I’m still in search for Cowiche Canyon cans.

 

Picked them up from Windsor CM. Some of them were a bit old but happy to have access to PNW fh beers at all.

Would love to try Cowiche this year but haven't seen it either and it's getting a bit long in the tooth at this point.

 

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Fremonts HFofFH is good. GC’s Flying Purpose is better. I prefer fresh hops in west coast over hazy. This was canned 9-23. Still in search of Cowiche, draft or cans.

 

just had Flying with a Purpose today, very tasty. Grabbed a pack to take home (canned 10/10)

 

Personally I’m not getting a ton of FH character on this one either, similar to how I felt about Head Full of Fresh Hops. Field to Ferment still the most “true to character” FH release of the 3 I’ve had from Fremont this year.

 

actually this is getting better as I’m drinking the second half of the can.

 

honestly pretty sure I hadn’t had any FH beer this season. Then a Proxy homie gave me a surprise hookup.
Had 4 today. The Holy Mountain/Brujo one was by far the standout. Reminded me of monkish and Treehouse Gggreen series.
Obelisk was 2nd. Super good.

 

Now we’re talking

 

While I've never had a bad beer from GC, this was not a big hit for me. I got too much oily perfume. I think it's just a little hot out of the gate. I'll try another can this weekend, and bet it has mellowed nicely.

 

last fresh Stratacaster can from RiiP. Delicious.

 

continuing on with fresh hops…

 

Grabbed one of these yesterday, canned “the week of Sept 23”. Tasty

 

I picked up two 4-packs of this for my brother’s birthday last Sunday. Both packs were gone within a 1/2 hour and I was the only beer geek there, so I would say this was a hit with normal people and obsessives!

 

I’m ready for a can of Flying with a Purpose.

 

I'm on my third four-pack of Flying with a Purpose, and I'm surprised it's still available, at least in CM.

For me, it's the best fresh hop beer from SoCal this year. It even tops the ones I tried at Pizza Port's Hoptoberfest. It uses Mosaic, one of my favorite hops, and combines a green, resinous fresh hop character like those from the PNW with the drier, lighter style typical of SoCal fresh hop beers, but with more of that fresh hop punch.

 

Having a Berryessa Freshie pale ale. Light and delicate, 5%, and all mosaic. My favorite FH of the season.

 

Born Yesterday is out and about with a 9/30 packaging date.

It's better than it's been in the last few years, and a welcome bit of nostalgia up here where there's no other packaged wet hop beers to be found, but it's still a bit shy of it's peaks.