Fresh Hop Beers

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  1. dirtylou

    dirtylou Grand Pooh-Bah (3,352) May 12, 2005 Oklahoma
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    Right - their 'definition' is widely known, but it's annoying because its extremely misleading as that is not the way the term 'fresh hop' is used in the industry. I like SN and Celebration, but they need to give it up already. It's not a fresh hop beer.

    The best fresh hop beers I have had this year come from Fremont, Comrade, Barley Browns, Breakside, Fort George and Laurelwood.
     
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  2. MNAle

    MNAle Initiate (0) Sep 6, 2011 Minnesota

    Yeah. We can get to work on that once we clear up the use of "craft"! :grinning:
     
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  3. distantmantra

    distantmantra Pooh-Bah (2,954) May 23, 2011 Washington
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    I'm well aware of that info on their website. And all it does is create confusion. 95% of all PNW beers that are brewed with hops picked off the bine and thrown in the kettle before they can be dried are called fresh hops. Out here we have fresh hop festivals, not wet hop festivals. It just muddies things up when they're doing something different than most every other brewery, but using the same term.

    Rant over. Back to fresh hop love.
     
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  4. Leebo

    Leebo Initiate (0) Feb 7, 2013 Massachusetts

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    Fresh hop, not wet hop, there is a difference.
     
    #24 Leebo, Oct 30, 2015
  5. distantmantra

    distantmantra Pooh-Bah (2,954) May 23, 2011 Washington
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    They're interchangeable names that seem to regionally based. Fresh hop and wet hop mean the same thing.
     
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  6. TheBungyo

    TheBungyo Pooh-Bah (2,037) Dec 1, 2004 Washington
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    Do you work in the Sierra Nevada marketing dept?
     
    #26 TheBungyo, Oct 30, 2015
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  7. ToddSoonerFan

    ToddSoonerFan Initiate (0) Aug 23, 2013 Iowa

    I tried Freestate Brewing's Yakimaniac . Fantastic beer! Lagunitas Born Yesterday and Sixpoint Sensi are also top notch.
     
    #27 ToddSoonerFan, Oct 30, 2015
  8. ddskos

    ddskos Zealot (641) Apr 28, 2008 Illinois
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    Lagunitas Born Yesterday
    Founders Harvest Ale
    Three Floyds Broo Doo
    Surly Wet
     
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  9. nc41

    nc41 Initiate (0) Sep 25, 2008 North Carolina
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    Really they're all quite good, I like Founders Harvest a lot, I've never had one on tap, but I'd love to.
     
    #29 nc41, Oct 30, 2015
  10. gatornation

    gatornation Grand High Pooh-Bah (10,388) Apr 18, 2007 Arizona
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    2 Favorites this year
    Castle Danger Mosaic IPA
    Born yesterday
     
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