THE STORY OF A FRESH HOP BEER
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For brewers and beer aficionados, it’s almost like Christmas morning.
We’re talking fresh hop harvest time in the Pacific Northwest, a glorious period when craft breweries dispatch delivery vans to the farms to collect the aromatic bounty. And then race back to the brewhouse as quickly as possible.