Rolling out three more fresh hop reviews as I wind down the season, with beers from Breakside Brewery, Sunriver Brewing, and Three Creeks Brewing to share.

Breakside Brewery – Fresh Hop IGA (India Golden Ale)

Breakside took it’s IGA (India golden ale) and gave it the fresh hop treatment, with Crystal hops. The standard IGA was originally a collaboration brew with Ninkasi Brewing, and is essentially a lighter-bodied double IPA.

Fresh Hop IGA is 8.1% ABV, with no IBUs noted. Packaged on September 13, I drank it October 5. Notes:

Unfiltered/hazy golden. Big aroma with lots of spicy lupulin (fresh picked hop hands) that’s sticky and resinous and a touch sweaty-dank, really nice. Similar resin flavor that’s fresh and floral and spicy with a bit of pine or similar evergreen, and there’s an aftertaste of yarrow and slight note of composting leaves.

Sunriver Brewing – D’Kine Mosaic Fresh Hop IPA

Sunriver Brewing released a bunch of fresh hop beers this year, but I didn’t see many appear in cans; I missed grabbing Green Initiative when it was released. Fortunately D’Kine got canned also. The description for this beer says:

This IPA uses freshly harvested Mosaic hops, provided to us by our friends at Coleman Agriculture in St. Paul, OR. These unique “wet” hops provide layers of mango, citrus, blueberry and earthy-pine flavors.

It’s 6.5% ABV with 55 IBUs. It was canned on September 28, and I drank it on October 10. My notes:

Clear, honey-gold, white head. Aromatic with a sweaty/catty character (tomato plant), green melon, fresh cut hay, a squeeze of citrus. Bright, crisp, nettles-like bitterness, alfalfa, herbal spice in flavor. Still get some of that sweatiness and a bit of dank cannabis. Light indistinct fruitiness that’s pleasant and mildly green. Tasty, enjoying this and it’s super solid.

Three Creeks Brewing – Sabro Fresh Hop Ale

Yep, the can in the photo is a blank, because it was a limited fill-from-draft of Three Creeks’ fresh hop Sabro pale ale the brewery sent to me, so no fancy labels. The description from the info sheet said:

We made one more trip to BC Hop Farm in Woodburn to load up on their first-ever-harvest of this recently-developed tropical gem. Sabro is notable for its complexity of fruity and citrus flavors. It imparts distinct aromatics of passionfruit, pineapple, coconut and stonefruit, followed by intense flavors of tangerine, lemon and lime. There’s also a pleasantly surprising kick of hop bitterness within this slightly-hazy and light-bodied pale ale.

5.2% ABV. I don’t know for sure when it was canned, the six-pack holder has “9/30” written on it, but I drank it October 15. Notes:

Hazy-ish copper, fluffy and ample white head. Tropical aromas with pineapple, apricot, tangerine, and a touch of coconut, quite juicy, nicely bright. Flavor has a biting herbal bitterness, with comfrey or mullein, hop stems, coconut husk (fiber), turnip greens, and a hint of coconut suntan lotion. Earthy with some pine bark. Green vegetable juice with a touch of allium and alfalfa hay.