Beveridge Place Pub and Washington Beer Blog present the area’s wettest fresh hop beer festival, which is also the freshest wet hop festival.
I don’t want to talk out of turn or get into a thumb-wrestling match about which is the biggest or the best fresh hop beer festival around Seattle. However, I will say this. The BPP/WBB Fresh Hop Festival is the wettest fresh hop beer festival, which is not be confused with the freshest wet hop beer festival. But that’s us, too. The Beveridge Place Pub and the Washington Beer Blog team up to present a three-day fresh hop beer extravaganza. It involves two days (Oct. 9th and 10th) with two dozen fresh hop beers on tap, and then a festival on Saturday, October 11th with 40 fresh hop beers on tap.
It’s a celebration in two parts. On Thursday and Friday, the pub will offer 24 fresh hop beers on tap, available by the pint or by self-designed taster trays (smaller pours so you can taste ’em side by side). On Saturday, it’s a straight-up beer fest with 40 freshies on tap. The pub and its beer garden transform into a festival grounds. Taster tokens, a commemorative glass, live entertainment from DJ ABV, and all that. We share all the details in the press release below.
Is it wet or is it fresh?
Some folks argue about this, but I’m a beer lover, not a fighter. Call it what you want, but I have a reason behind my decision to promote this style of beer using the term fresh hop beer. Regarding the wet hop vs. fresh hop thing, I look at this way. All wet hop beers are fresh hop beers. Some fresh hop beers are wet hop beers. All wet hops are fresh because they’ve not been kiln dried. Some fresh hops are no longer wet, because they’ve been kiln dried, but they are still fresh. Confused?
That’s the problem. It’s confusing. For marketing purposes, it makes sense to call it fresh hop beer, since that term describes both wet hop beer and fresh hop beer. There is a real designation between the two, that is true, but it really does not matter to anyone but the brewers and the most geeky beer nerds. We are talking about the kind of beer you can only brew using freshly harvested hops, whether they are still wet or not.
I came to my conclusion when trying to explain it to someone who is not a geeky beer nerd, but just a regular civilian beer drinker. When I used the term wet hop beer, she asked me, “Don’t all hops get wet when you make the beer?” The term fresh hop beer made more sense to her, and since I’m not trying to impress anyone with my vast knowledge on the subject, but am just trying to get people excited about the stuff, I have settled on the term fresh hop beer.
Three Days of Fresh Hop Beers
- A three-day celebration of fresh hop beer crescendos with a fresh hop beer festival on Saturday
- Thursday, October 9th, 3-11 p.m.
- Friday, October 10th, 3-11 p.m.
- Saturday, October 11th, noon-11 p.m.
- Beveridge Place Pub. 6413 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136
- 21+ only
For Immediate Release
Fresh Hop Beer Celebration at Beveridge Place Pub, October 9th through 11th
Beveridge Place Pub and Washington Beer Blog team up to celebrate the hop-harvest season
SEATTLE, WA, September 2nd, 2025 – The Beveridge Place Pub and Washington Beer Blog, two of Seattle’s revered beer institutions, team up for a three-day celebration of fresh hop beers on October 9th through 11th. The celebration culminates on Saturday, October 11th, with the BPP-WBB Fresh Hop Beer Festival, featuring up to 40 fresh hop beers served festival-style. Fresh hop beers, also called wet hop beers, use the hops within hours of the harvest, so it is a style of beer reserved for this time of year, when farmers are bringing in the annual hop crop.
On Thursday and Friday, Beveridge Place Pub serves fresh hop beers from 24 taps. Guests can order beers by the pint or create their own taster trays, which offer smaller pours of multiple beers for side-by-side tasting.
On Saturday, the pub and its beer garden transform into a festival grounds, with upwards of 40 fresh hop beers on tap. Guests purchase taster tokens and sample beers using a four-ounce, commemorative tasting glass. DJ ABV provides live entertainment in the beer garden, spinning tunes from 2 to 6 p.m.
“At this time of year, beer lovers are on the hunt for fresh hop beers,” said Gary Sink, publican at Beveridge Place Pub. “We want to provide one place, one event, where beer lovers can sample a wide variety of some of the best fresh hop beers around. We are sourcing beer from some of our favorite breweries, including those that have won awards or demonstrated exceptional skill at brewing this kind of beer.”
“Fresh hop beer is a big deal here in the Pacific Northwest, where our farmers grow virtually all of the nation’s annual hop crop,” said Kendall Jones, founder of the Washington Beer Blog. “This style of beer uses the hops within hours of harvest, so brewers around here enjoy an advantage. A brewer in Seattle can drive to the Yakima Valley, load a van with freshly picked hops, drive back to the brewery, and immediately make the beer. Securing freshly harvested hops is more difficult for brewers in other parts of the country.”
Beers brewed using freshly harvested hops often exhibit floral, aromatic, sticky, green, herbal, grassy, delicate, or bright characteristics. Depending on the techniques and hop varieties the brewer employs, there is much room for variation. One thing they all have in common is that their character is fleeting; fresh hop beers are best enjoyed when they’re fresh. The harvest season runs from late August through early October, so the fresh hop beer season lasts from mid-September through November.
The Pacific Northwest is one of the world’s most prolific hop-growing regions. Farmers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho produce virtually all of the USA’s annual hop crop. Each year, farmers in the Yakima Valley provide about 70 percent of the USA’s crop and about 25 percent of the world’s hop crop. The Pacific Northwest is also home to over 800 craft breweries, many producing one or more fresh hop beers each year.
Three Days of Fresh Hop Beers
- A three-day celebration of fresh hop beer crescendos with a fresh hop beer festival on Saturday
- Thursday, October 9th, 3-11 p.m.
- Friday, October 10th, 3-11 p.m.
- Saturday, October 11th, noon-11 p.m.
- Beveridge Place Pub. 6413 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136
- 21+ only
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