Virtual Hop – Week 2

More hop news from Yakima Chief via the interwebs and the virtual hop season… plus some extra tidbits from perusing what competitor Hopsteiner has going…

  • Be on the lookout for HBC 630 with a cherry candy aroma and HBC 638 with a lime focus amidst other citrus
  • survivalable compounds is something we are going to hear more about. It will make timing and choice of hops more exacting
  • Yakima Chief Ranches grows blueberries too and Gascony bison!
  • Hopsteiner has a way cool video about their picking operation. No bringing in full bines. They strip the hops off right in the field
  • the amount of smelling that goes on to collect data is amazing. 100s of hops are give s sensory analysis
  • a hop might go to market because it has a different picking window than the other hops in the field
  • there was a really cool hour long video about Russian breweries. Makes me want to go to St. Petersburg.

Virtual Hop Picking

Yup, every damn thing I see going to have the word “virtual” in front of it. But, this virtual harvest is making me look forward to September. Check out the SCHEDULE and you will see som technical stuff but they are going g to name a new hop and other fun stuff too. If you are a hop fan, this will make you bitter in a good way.