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All the Fresh Hop News That’s Fit to Print

It is that time of year again, when the hops of the valley are plucked at the peak of ripeness and thrown into kettles and conditioning tanks all over the Northwest. Like blooming flowers, however, these beers appear in their glory for only days at a time. You need to drink ’em when they go on tap, or miss them forever. In past years, I’ve tried to keep track of which breweries were making fresh hop beers, and with which hops. But since I’m terrible with details, it was always half-assed at best.

Fortunately, Ryan Sharp has stepped into the breach and now keeps an updated Google document to track these things. Even better, he’s created a form for breweries to use to add their info to the document. Those links:

There are a number of fresh hop events to take note of as the month unfolds, as well:

  • The annual Lucky Lab hop-plucking event happens next Tuesday (Sept 6) at the back patio of the Hawthorne location.

Source: Beervana

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