Maybe no brewery on the earth is as devoted to fresh-hopped beers as Single Hill in Yakima, Washington. Led by cofounder and head brewer Zach Turner, the Single Hill staff leans into vibrantly hopped IPAs all 12 months lengthy—and their Thoughts Plant double IPA was first runner-up ultimately 12 months’s Alpha King Problem—however harvest time is when their strengths and experience actually get to shine. That’s when Turner shifts focus to fresh-hopped beers, driving to farms across the Yakima Valley to see which varieties are freshly picked, dashing the moist cones again to the brewery to pour into the mash tun-turned-hopback, and gathering freshly kilned (however not but baled) whole-cone hops that they pelletize themselves for the whirlpool and dry hop. The operating occasion all through the season is the Recent Hop Rodeo, when Single Hill collaborates with brewers throughout the nation on a sequence of fresh-hopped beers that compete for the love of native prospects.
Single Hill’s singular fresh-hop focus is succeeding: Their Vitality Cone IPA was the gold medal–profitable fresh-hop beer ultimately 12 months’s Nice American Beer Pageant, and their fame and respect for these beers is rising past the area.
On this episode, Turner opens the ebook on his course of and strategy to fresh-hopped beers, together with:
- flexibility and serendipity in choose home windows and varieties
- pelletizing their very own hops on the brewery
- using decrease temperatures for wet-hop contact, to restrict vegetal flavors
- fermenting fresh-hop IPAs with quite a lot of yeasts
- brewing each hazy and West Coast fresh-hop iterations
- their experimenter system that splits a 15-barrel brew into three completely different fermentations
- new and thrilling hop varieties on the horizon
And extra.
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