SIERRA NEVADA’S NEW HOP HUNTER IPA IS LIKE NO OTHER BEER IN ITS CLASS

You might not realize that hops—one of four necessary ingredients in beer—are only fresh, or “ripe,” for a 6- to 8-week window every year. That’s usually from mid-August until mid-September when, amazingly, all the hops in America are picked from their bines. The vast majority are dried, often to be turned into pellets or extracts, in order that breweries have a hops supply for the other ten months of the year. But, an incredibly small amount of these fresh hops are immediately thrown into brew kettles for a beloved style of beer called wet hop ale which only hits the marketplace during this brief harvest season.

What if I told you this is all about to change and—for the first time ever—you will soon be able to drink wet hop beer year round?…CLICK TO READ THE REST OF THE STORY AT ESQUIRE