9 Fresh Hop Beers to Drink This Fall

在一个温暖周一早上in late August, three科罗拉多工艺酿酒厂堆入单引擎飞机，从丹佛以北的一个小型市政机场起飞。

An hour later, they touched down on the other side of the state and drove to a farm, where they helped harvest more than 100 pounds of fresh hops. They quickly loaded bags of the small, leafy green cones grown by Paonia'sHigh Wire Hops进入飞机回家。

Meanwhile, back in Denver, another brewer started making beer so that when the high-flying crew fromFlyteco酿造那烤啤酒那and乌尔的酿造返回，他们可以将新鲜啤酒花直接倒入水壶中。

合作的“ Hop是我的副驾驶” Hazy IPA是一种新鲜的啤酒啤酒，这意味着它是由新鲜的（而不是干燥）制成的。新鲜的啤酒啤酒在许多酿酒师的心中都有一个特殊的位置，因为它们每年只能在夏末和初秋的收获时间左右进行一次。

尽管用新鲜与干啤酒花制成的啤酒之间的差异很微妙，但右键版本通常更明亮，稍微更强烈。（啤酒花是啤酒中的四种主要成分之一。它们是对您饮用IPA和淡啤酒时获得的酥脆，苦味的负责。）

埃里克·塞拉尼（Eric Serani）说：“新鲜的啤酒啤酒具有独特的风味和香气，”埃里克·塞拉尼（Eric Serani）说。“这是我制作的绝对最喜欢的啤酒。”

Fall beer-drinking typically conjures up images of spicy pumpkins ales and malty Oktoberfest Marzens. But before you go too far down that rabbit hole, give thanks to summer 2021's bounty with these fresh hop beers from around the country.

Utah'sWasatch Brewerymakes its fresh hop beer in a unique way: by recruiting volunteer "hops hunters“远足进入受的开放空间Summit Land Conservancyto gather wild-grown hops.

他们的服装啤酒花新鲜啤酒啤酒是用100磅野生啤酒花制成的。Head Brewer Nils Imboden不知道他们是哪种类型的啤酒花，但他不介意这个谜团 - 他喜欢他们给这5％啤酒的石果，干草和柑橘的大笔记。

他说：“我们在犹他州很幸运，在啤酒厂数英里内拥有大量的野啤酒花。”

密歇根州Founders Brewing Co。从华盛顿的Yakima Valley（该国最多产的啤酒花种植地区）来源的大部分干啤酒花 - 直到最近，这也是他们获得新鲜啤酒花的地方。但是，随着密歇根州的啤酒花产业近年来蓬勃发展，啤酒厂的工作人员非常高兴地将在大湖区种植的新鲜啤酒花融入其曲目中。

This year, they worked withPure Mitten Hopsand顶级啤酒花农场to source 200 pounds of fresh Cascade and Paradigm hops for their Harvest Ale, a big, 7.6% IPA with pine, melon, and citrus flavors.

This beer's name is a fun play on words — instead of ordering "a Pilsner, please," beer-drinkers at North Carolina'sFonta Flora Brewery可以要求提供PLZ，PLZ，5.2％的非传统皮士纳，并用新鲜的级联啤酒花酿造SKYe2 Farm。它是轻巧，清脆的，完全可碎的，带有新鲜啤酒花的柑橘和草的香气。

佛蒙特州Kraemer &亲属今年正在制作一个三啤酒的新型啤酒花系列，每啤酒都从啤酒厂的半英亩霍比亚德（Half-Acion Hopyard）中收获了每种啤酒。啤酒具有不同含量的松树，柑橘，哈密瓜，芒果和杏味。

"If harvest season was longer, I'd do 10 wet-hops beers I love them so much," says brewer Levi Kraemer.

用俄勒冈州的80磅新鲜的啤酒花制成Coleman Agriculture蜜蜂保存在啤酒厂40英亩的烹饪农场中的蜜蜂制成的90磅蜂蜜，这5.8％的红啤酒是轻便的，花香和美味的。

"This is the time of year where we get to use the freshest, rawest state of the hop flower and make a beer that accentuates those amazing characters in that hop," says公共海岸酿造公司的瑞安·斯奈德（Ryan Snyder）。

拉蒙·塔玛约（Ramon Tamayo），酿造经理New Belgium Brewing San Francisco在加利福尼亚州佩塔卢马（Petaluma）的后院，在比利时启发的5.2％启发的威特啤酒中，充满爱意的是级联和掘金啤酒花。

After harvest, he loaded them into two paper grocery bags, then carefully transported them via ferry for his commute into work — from his garden to the brew kettle in less than 24 hours. This beer gives off aromas of peppercorn, coriander, fresh-cut grass, lemon, pine, and resin, then goes down creamy and smooth with a blast of fresh hop flavor.

塔玛约说：“渡轮的整个内部闻起来闻起来令人惊叹，几乎昏昏欲睡。”“我肯定有一些想知道的眼睛。”

内华达山脉庆祝IPA是那里最著名的新鲜啤酒啤酒之一，这是有充分理由的。自1981年以来，创始人肯·格罗斯曼（Ken Grossman）想将自己的产品扩展到当时的啤酒厂的苍白啤酒，粗壮和波特。从那以后的几年中，它开发了自己的顽固IPA饮酒者的追随者。

Made with Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook hops grown in Washington and Oregon, this seasonal beer has a malty backbone and intense citrus and pine aromas. This year, Sierra Nevada is packaging the beloved Celebration in cans, instead of the traditional bottles.

买：内华达山脉Celebration, 6-pack from $12.19

Oregon'sBreakside Brewerygoes all out during hop harvest season, making eight different fresh hop beers. But if the brewery's staff had to pick just one to sip, it's this 7.5% double IPA made with farm-fresh Crystal hops grown 60 miles from the brewery. It's got hints of cotton candy grapes, watermelon, and sweet pine.

This 7.7% fresh hop IPA fromLagunitas由于在Yakima Valley种植的新鲜马赛克，Citra，Simcoe和Sabra Hops添加了新鲜的马赛克，Citra，Simcoe和Sabra Hops。这是啤酒啤酒应该的一切，然后是一些：果味，柑橘类和热带。