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Fresh hop beer festivals and events around Seattle

Below, a list of upcoming events happening around Seattle where you can enjoy a selection of fresh hop beers, including the city’s first full-blown beer…

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Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery releasing member-grown fresh hop beer

It’s fresh hop beer season, that magical time of year that makes hop-loving beer drinkers giddy with delight. At Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery they extend…

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Yakima Fresh Hop Ale Festival – calling all artists

It’s harvest time in the Yakima Valley and the smell of hops is in the air. That means it’s fresh hop beer season, one of…

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Tapping the First Fresh Hop Beer of 2015, This Friday

Hop harvest is now upon us. Farmers in the Yakima Valley are just now beginning to harvest the crop in earnest, but a couple weeks…

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When should you harvest your backyard hops?

Someone pinged me via email and asked for some advice on when to harvest his backyard hop crop. Indeed, this has been a hot and…

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Two Beers Brewing is Releasing Fresh Hop 2013 this Friday

The there you have it. I just wrote about fresh hop beers, mentioning that Two Beer Brewing (blog sponsor) had already brewed one, and now…

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Fresh Hop, Wet Hop, What’s the Difference?

(Aug. 28, 2013, updated Sept. 27, 2018) The season’s first fresh hop ales are here. Well, not here, but there, in California, where the hops…

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Hop Class with Professor Randall, Presented by Pine Box & Fremont Brewing

The 2012 fresh hop beer season is beginning to wind down. There are still plenty of fresh hop beers out there, but not for long….

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The 2012 Hop Harvest – In Pictures and Words

Over in the Yakima Valley, the annual hop harvest nears completion. For about three weeks, crews work feverishly around the clock to bring in the…

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