Craft Beer & Brewing Course
Fresh Hopping with Single Hill
Join Single Hill cofounder and head brewer Zach Turner on an expedition to the Yakima Valley at harvest time to pick up the freshest hops, then take them back to the brewery and add them—in different forms and different ways—to beers brewed that day.
6 chapters · 27 lessons · 1h 40m
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Zach Turner
Cofounder and Head Brewer, Single Hill
Perhaps no brewery in the world is as dedicated to fresh-hopped beers as Single Hill in Yakima, Washington. Led by cofounder and head brewer Zach Turner, the Single Hill team leans into vibrantly hopped IPAs all year long but harvest time is when their strengths and expertise really get to shine. That’s when Turner shifts focus to fresh-hopped beers, driving to farms around the Yakima Valley to see which varieties are freshly picked, rushing the wet cones back to the brewery to pour into the mash tun-turned-hopback, and gathering freshly kilned (but not yet baled) whole-cone hops that they pelletize themselves for the whirlpool and dry hop.
Course contents
6 chapters, 27 lessons, 1h 40m of video
Chapter 1
Welcome
- Intro and Course Overview5:33
Chapter 2
Fresh Hop Beers
- Hitting the Road, Visiting the Farms3:55
- Fresh Hop Beers11:04
Chapter 3
On the Farm
- The Farms7:13
- Day in the Life: Fresh Hop Brewday5:10
- Pickers6:45
- Kilning4:58
- Hop Harvest6:09
- Bailing3:15
Chapter 4
Back in the Brewhouse
- Back to the Brewery3:18
- Back At the Brewery14:50
- Other Techniques1:39
- Pellets12:50
Chapter 5
Conclusion, Recipes & Further Reading/Listening
- Final Steps2:43
- Beer After Brew Day8:15
- Wrapping it Up2:49
- Fresh-Hopped Beers: The Last Seasonal
- Taste the Freshness: 3 Keys to Success with Fresh-Hopped Beers
- Let’s Go, Let’s Show, Let’s Rodeo: Lessons in Fresh Hopping
- Podcast Episode 161: For Matt Lincoln of Fremont, Fresh-Hop Beers Are Labors of Love
- Podcast Episode 260: Zach Turner of Single Hill is the Fresh Prince of Yakima
- Podcast Episode 263: Bale Breaker Brewmaster Kevin Smith Lives the Hop Life
- Podcast Episode 314: Pinthouse, Cloudburst, and Single Hill Join for a Fresh-Hop Brewing Roundtable
Chapter 6
Fresh-Hopped Beer Recipes
- Recipe: Fort George Fresh IPA
- Recipe: Crazy Mountain Sticky Fingers Harvest Ale
- Recipe: Enchanted Circle Brewing Wet-N-Wild Harvest Ale
- Recipe: Comrade Fresh Hops Superpower IPA