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Finding freshies 2018 – a guide to locating and drinking fresh hop beers

  Updated with more events and beer release info on October 4th –  – It’s a magical time of year: the annual hop harvest. That means…

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New twist on fresh hop beer – an interstate collaboration project

  Yesterday, I wrote about fresh hop beers and today the theme continues. It is, after all, fresh hop beer season in the Pacific Northwest….

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Why you should and should not care about fresh hop beer

  Some fresh hop beers have already come to market and many others are in fermenters or conditioning tanks across the Pacific Northwest and beyond….

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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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Your chance to experience the hop harvest firsthand

Schooner Exact Brewing invites you to join them for the 3rd Annual Hop Field Trip. Visit Virgil Gamache Farms in Toppenish for an exclusive tour…

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Hopvine Pub – Wet Hop Cask Fest

Super quick note here. There’s not a lot know, but it’s good stuff to know. Especially if you like wet hop (fresh hop) beer. And…

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First Sip of Fresh Hop 2013 – This Afternoon at Latona Pub

Let me share a bit of wisdom. A brewer friend of mine once told me, “I don’t care who’s got the first fresh hop beer…

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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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