Fresh Hop & ‘Fest’ Beers for 2022
Here’s a complete breakdown of fresh-hopped ales and lager along with Oktoberfest or other festival-inspired ales and lagers.
Fresh Hop Ales & Lagers
Released: Mid September
A light summer ale with rich malt notes, crowned with the finest batch of Fresh Hops grown by the side of Lake Chelan.
Ingredients: Base 2 Row, Golden Promise, Crystal 45, Vienna, and fresh Centennial, Chinook, and Cascade hops, all grown at the local Lake Chelan Hops farm
4.5% ABV | 32 IBU
Ingredients: Fresh Citra from CLS Farms on the hot side and dry-hopped with fresh El Dorado from CLS Farms.
6.4% ABV | ? IBU
Hop forward flavors of passionfruit, pineapple, strawberry, grapefruit, and dank
Brewing is the craft of blending science with artistry then introducing the mystical. Field to Ferment exemplifies this adventure and represents a colossal collaboration between the brewery and our hop farmers. Nothing is fresher, nothing is better for a brewer. So, please do enjoy this beer absolutely fresh, and enjoy the adventure this beer represents... Because Fresh Hop Beer Matters!
Ingredients: Down & Dirty: 2-Row Pale and Munich malts, White Wheat, fresh Centennial hops from Double ‘R’ Hop Farms.
6% ABV | 50 IBU
Ingredients: Down & Dirty: Organic 2-row, Organic Carapils, Organic Munich, Organic Pilsner, and Organic C-17 malt with fresh Organic Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe, and Ekuanot hops from Cowiche Canyon Hop Farms; and Organic Citra, Mosaic and Simcoe dry hop
6% ABV | 60 IBU
There is something special about Chinook hops. Embraced for their distinctive fruity and spicy evergreen notes and a splash of rich grapefruit Chinooks are balanced by a subtle woody earthiness in this golden pale ale. Once a year in the Northern Hemisphere, we get to brew beer in it's purest form. Hop cones, cut from the trellises, are immediately collected by bleary-eyed brewers on a pre-dawn mission. Once back at the brewery, fresh hop cones are crammed into a fermenter with freshly brewed American pale ale to extract the magic that is the fresh hop brew.
Ingredients: Rahr old world pilsner malt and fresh Chinook hops from Coleman Farms.
6% ABV | - IBU
Pale Ale featuring fresh Centennial hops that were harvested from Coleman Farms in Woodburn, Oregon, trucked back to the brewery the same day as harvest, and immediately packed into a fermenter containing a freshly brewed American Pale Ale. The base beer is brewed with Rahr Old World Pilsner malt and malted wheat, making way for a big peach, grapefruit, and distinct fresh hop character.
Ingredients: Rahr old world pilsner malt, malted wheat and fresh Centennial hops from Coleman Farms.
6.0% ABV | - IBU
This Centennial Fresh Hop Pale Ale is our toast to Oregon hop farmers! It's dry-hopped with hundreds of pounds of Centennial hops cultivated locally. The freshest hops of the season contribute zesty citrus and enticing floral notes inviting you to raise a glass and enjoy.
For this beer, we went on a little road trip to one of our hop suppliers and came back with 70lb of hop cones fresh from the fields. The hops in this beer were on the bine in the morning and in our beer by lunchtime so they are as fresh and they come.
Ingredients: Wheat, Pale, malts; fresh Chinook and Cascade hops from Bredenhof Hop Farms; and kilned Magnum and Chinook hops.
5% ABV | - IBU
Fresh Hop Double Hazy IPA: The forecast is calling for 100% chance ofwet Strata accumulation. This All-Strata double dry hopped Hazy DIPA has a sticky deluge of hop flavor and aroma with notes of tropical fruit, grapefruit, and cannabis. ABV 8.7% IBU 46
Ingredients: use of proprietary malt, fresh Strata hops from Indie Hops, and kilned strata pellets in the boil, and fresh strata in both the boil and dry-hop.
8.7% ABV | 46 IBU
"This award-winning fresh hop collaboration beer is brewed every year with the big city brewers at Cloudburst Brewing Company. Heavily dry-hopped, while light in color and body, this beer is all about these fresh, farm-grown Citra® hops!"
Ingredients: 2-Row, Munich, C-10, White Wheat malts, fresh hop Citra from Loftus Ranches, and kilned Mosaic, Citra, Loral hops.
6.2% ABV | 60 IBU
Every year, local folks with hops growing around their houses, garages, gardens, and farms, bring them down to Fort George on the 2nd Wednesday in September. The brew staff and our hop donors enjoy some pints in the sun while they pick them from the bines. The next day, CoHoperative Ale is brewed with all of those donated wet hops. It's always a draft only, local release at the pub. But everyone who drops off hops gets to take home a growler and a tshirt.
A wet hop Hazy IPA brewed with fresh HBC586 hops from Yakima Chief Ranches.
A wet hop pale ale brewed with fresh Chinooks from Crosby Hop Farm. 5% ABV
Released: Mid September
Ingredients: … brewed with Chinook, Mosaic & El Dorado & dry-hopped with fresh Citra hops from CLS Farms.
4.20% ABV | ? IBU
Ingredients: Pilsner, Crystal 75, Crystal 120, fresh Centennial hops from Crosby Farms, and Fresh Hop Cryo Citra, Fresh Hop Cryo Simcoe, Warrior, Idaho 7, Simcoe.
7% ABV | 78 IBU
Donnie Dunkelweisse
Bronze Medalist, 2018 WA Beer Awards
6% ABV – 14 IBU
Malt: Munich, Wheat
Hops: Tettnang, Kent
A true Southern Dunkel: a dark, cloudy appearance with hints of clove and banana in the aroma. Caramel and chocolate-like notes will sit in a rounded medium-bodied beer
Ingredients: Malt: Munich, Wheat
Hops: Tettnang, Kent
6% ABV | 14 IBU
Named after the city from which this style originates, we kept this one true to its roots. A glowing bronze color with a nice malty aroma gives way to flavors reminiscent of warm baked bread and roasted nuts.
Ingredients: "Hops: Magnum, Hallertau, Tettnanger
Malt: Wyermann Pilsner, Gambrinus Vienna, Weyermann CaraAroma, Simpsons Chocolate malt"
5.3% ABV | 20 IBU
Festbier lagered in toasted virgin oak barrels for 4 months
Ingredients: Weyermann Isaria, Munich Malts; Hersbrucker and Saaz hops
? ABV | ? IBU
Brewed with heirloom German malts, Festbier is a crisp, full-bodied lager with bready and biscuit aromatics balanced with Hersbrucker and Saaz hops.
Ingredients: Weyermann Isaria, Munich Malts; Hersbrucker and Saaz hops
5.3% ABV | 20 IBU
Bavarian-style amber lager, brewed with with German malts and delicate noble hops. Cool fermentation and extended cold conditioning smooths out this balanced lager with a round finish.
Ingredients: "brewed with Local Linc Malt barley, Magnum, H. Mittelfruh"