The Brew Site
Between its two pubs in Bend and in Portland, Deschutes Brewery has a big lineup of fresh hop beers coming out this year. As usual, Chasin’ Freshies Fresh Hop IPA is returning in cans, and will be featuring fresh Idaho 7 hops this time around. It will be out in … Continue reading
Fresh hop beer news from Portland’s Migration Brewing! The brewery is planning to release five fresh hop beers this season, starting with Fresh Outta Portland Fresh Hop IPA, which is out now. That’s the only one available in cans this year; the other four will be draft only at the … Continue reading
Another story featuring Coleman Agriculture, as it pertains to fresh hops—because it’s the season, don’t you know! (See my post on Bill Coleman previously.) Being that it’s essentially from Coleman, it’s a promo piece for the company, but interesting for some info on the hop harvest. The article: While hop … Continue reading
It’s time once again for my annual post obsessively tracking local-to-Central-Oregon fresh hop beers, which I will be updating frequently through at least the next month and a half. Here’s the usual description of my methodology: Breweries are listed alphabetically, then the beers are listed as I learn about them … Continue reading
Finally made it! My final fresh hop “quick notes” review of the year! All in all I counted 36 different fresh hop beers I tried this year. That’s not to say I might not have more—there are still some on the shelves—but I’m done writing these up at this point; … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
I fell behind a bit in my quest to document all the fresh hop beers I tried this year with this lightning round-style reviews, but I’m close to finishing up. I don’t know if anyone’s still drinking fresh hops now that it’s mid-November but I still do see some on … Continue reading
Working through more of these fresh hop reviews, with three more here to check out. Breakside Brewery – Fresh Hop IPA Breakside brewed a marathon number of fresh hop beers this year, and I only scratched the surface of what they had to offer. This can was the Fresh Hop … Continue reading
Even more Bend fresh hop beers to share, with a wider variety of hops than last time (since the previous three were all hopped with Strata). Bridge 99 Brewery – Fresh Hop IPA Bridge 99 brewed one fresh hop beer this year, with fresh Cascade and Chinook hops from Tumalo … Continue reading
More, more, and yet more fresh hop quick notes! This edition features three Bend breweries (all acquired in the course of writing this article), and all Strata hops. Strata has been a popular fresh hop this year, the most common one used in the local brews (followed by Centennial). Let’s … Continue reading