Tag: American hops

The 2023 hop harvest is rolling in! Whether you’re contracting your hop needs for 2024, purchasing on spot, or a combination, here’s a preview of what to expect from this crop year: USA In the US, all indications point to a normal year in terms of yield, and quality is expected to be good. In […]

The American Style lager, the beer of backyard BBQs and baseball. The beer of our parents and grandparents and likely the first beer you tasted and then tasted a little too much of. It’s one of the most popular beer styles, brewed by some of the biggest breweries and it’s also about as American as […]

“The USDA has been breeding hops since the 1930s,” begins Dr. Kayla Altendorf, USDA-ARS Research Geneticist. That sounds like a good amount of expertise, doesn’t it? Her job, which you can learn about in the video embedded below, is to help develop new hop varieties and improve the breeding performance of the ones we’ve got. […]

Since we first wrote about Cold IPAs a year ago they’ve become much more common on taplists, retail shelves, and in the beer blogosphere. This summer we’re coming in hot to revisit Cold IPA: what it is, what it isn’t, and what makes it go. What it is Cold IPA fuses classic West Coast IPA […]

The USDA’s hop breeding program made news again when its latest public hop variety was announced earlier this spring. Vista – the hop formerly known as USDA Experimental #074 – was bred in 2006 at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Station in Corvallis, OR. Its ancestry includes Perle, Northern Brewer, and Hallertauer, and it was selected […]

Unless you’ve been living in an alternate-universe monastery subsisting entirely on a liquid diet of hard seltzer, you’ve probably at least seen and perhaps tasted (or even brewed) a dip hopped beer. What is dip hopping, and what does it do, and should you try it? Please … set down the goblet of that bizarro-Trappist […]

Soft, smooth, and luxurious like its namesake, Cashmere is a versatile dual-purpose hop that brings complex aromas of citrus and tropical fruit to the forefront. But don’t be deterred by its fancy-sounding name, in truth Cashmere is a complex hop for the people. A cross between Cascade and Northern Brewer, Cashmere was released in 2013 […]

Since BSG first shared the news with our customers in 2019, Triumph hops have been seen in more and more beers around the US and the world. But three years on, this public variety is still flying a bit under the radar. In this post, we’ll make sure you’re not missing out on the winning […]

After years of being “sessionized,” IPAs are going big again The importance of the IPA category to the craft beer market isn’t exactly breaking news, but the resurgence of Imperial IPAs amid low-ABV and health-conscious trends in brewing is noteworthy. According to industry sales data, Imperial IPAs are up almost 20% YTD for 2021 in […]

What do you think of when you hear El Dorado? Maybe it’s the mythical South American city of gold, or perhaps a regrettable mishearing of the classic Eagles hit “Desperado.” For craft brewers El Dorado® has its own legendary significance, not as a golden city but as a hop whose meteoric rise is matched only […]

As summer fades and the Pumpkin Spice Latte once again holds residence in a coffee shop near you, farmers in Yakima Valley take to the hop fields. As harvest begins, the vivid and bold aromas float through air and fill every nose with fragrance. Scents like rich pine and strong citrus and potent dank wrap their way around the valley, marking the turn of the season and the budding excitement of a new crop of hops.

It’s common in the craftbrewing industry for new trends to emerge from the creative brainwaves of brewers. One of the latest emerging trends however, has left people scratching their heads. Meet the Cold IPA.