On Friday, July 19th, BSG held its second annual Malt U, a two-day symposium dedicated to discussing and educating brewers on all things malt.

With harvest beginning in about a month, we’re looking back at a growing season that has been fairly unique in weather patterns throughout the Northwest hop growing region. Crop yield and quality, at this point, seem to have been largely unaffected thanks to strong growing practices of the growers we work with.

Krupička Farm is focused on the production of a single landrace variety. Saaz hops have been grown in this part of the Czech Republic for hundreds of years, and Miroslav Krupička has continued this tradition on his family’s farm when he started helping his parents with their 3 ha of Saaz in 1994.

To trace the history of Double ‘R’ , you have to go back to the Pacific Northwest of the 19th century: meet our grower-partners Kevin, Keith, and Steve Riel of Double 'R' Hop Ranches.

Meet Adolf Schlapfl from Grubwinner, one of BSG Hops' grower-partners.