It’s Fresh Hop Season

If the air seems a little bitty stickier, perhaps that’s because it is. Late summer is thick with the scent of lupulin oils. By early September the bines are packed around the Pacific Northwest, full of this year’s crop of hops. The great thing about brewing so close to those rich hop farms, Fort George…
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Fresh Hop Ales!

School is back in session, football season has started, and the hops have bloomed.  It’s that time of the year again, Fresh Hop Season!  September is when hop growers harvest their entire hop crops for the year of use.  To use these whole, fresh hops, they must be picked as fresh as possible and put…
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Our Co-Hoperative is making an apperance at the Eugene Fresh Hop Beer Tastival

10/17/2009 Oregon Bounty Fresh Hop Beer Tastival Produced by the Oregon Brewers Guild 948 Olive St. Eugene Admission is free 21+ Only $5 for a tasting glass-Required to taste. It’s your once-a-year chance to taste what Oregon’s finest brewmasters can do with just-picked hops. Sample more than 20 fresh hop beers from Oregon’s top craft…
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