“Cool kids” or the “popular kids” are usually very attractive, very stylish, up to the latest fashion, very confident, assertive and communicate easily with people. These traits make them easily noticed by their peers and people see them as the most attractive and cool. Before fresh hop beers begin to takeover taps, Peaks & Pints thought we highlight the “cool kid hops” that have entered the market in the last couple of years via today’s flight, Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Cool Kid Hops. A new hop crop brings focus to newly named hops hitting the marketplace as well as a slew of innovations in the hop industry being brewed by cool kid breweries. Stop by Peaks & Pints today and enjoy the cool kids.
Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Cool Kid Hops
Single Hill Hops For Hounds
5.4% ABV
HBC 586 is an experimental hop variety from the Hop Breeding Company, which is a joint venture between John I. Haas and Yakima Chief Ranches. HBC 586 is the result of a hybrid pollination of the mother YCR 21 and male #01239-2. With production ramped up, this tropical wonder is finally available for commercial brewing, and the newly named Krush™ HBC 586 c.v. is out to win the hearts of beer lovers everywhere. Krush is like your favorite parfait or a forkful of fresh fruit salad — bright, refreshing, tropical, slightly resinous, and delicious. Single Hill Brewing brought back their Hops for Hounds IPA brewed with HBC 586, now Krush, and Simcoe hops, Hops For Hounds is grapefruit forward with a dash of pine and rounded bitterness throughout. The slightly creamy and quaffable hazy is a collaborative fundraising effort for the Yakima Humane Society, by local breweries and industry partners. This juicy IPA for humans features hops generously donated by John I. Haas.
Lucky Envelope Matcha Do About Nothing
6.2% ABV
In September 2020, Yakima Valley’s Segal Ranch — a third-generation family farm that produces popular hop varieties — released the 24B-05 hop, which grabbed the attention of Fast Fashion Brewing owners Storm and Brian Strumke due to the its intriguing aromas. Segal Ranch offered a program where Fast Fashion could pay up front to grow the hops to later use them, and the variety was scaled up to a full acre. Fast Fashion dubbed the hop, Anchovy, which doesn’t taste like the fish but rather watermelon hard candy, raspberry, and pine. Lucky Envelope Brewing in Seattle teamed up with Fukuoka Craft Brewing to brew homebrewers Jeana Skiles and John Hocking award-winning Hazy IPA recipe brewed with lactose, Citra and Anchovy hops. They added matcha tea sourced directly from Fukuoka in Japan.
E9 Sapphire Bullets
6.6% ABV
HRC-003, formerly known as W1108-333, is an Elite Line experimental public hop from the USDA hop breeding program. Its mother is Brewers Gold and its father is 64103M. HRC-003 boasts hugely intense aromas with ripe peach, mango, and more tropical notes. It’s punchy and sweet. Sapphire Bullets, a brand-new IPA formulated by E9 Brewing brewer Amber Machado, starts off with experimental hop HRC-003 on the hot side and finishes with heavy dry hop dose of Citra Cryo and Southern Hemisphere grown Motueka. Expect light citrus mingling with loads of tropical fruit and ripe peachy stone fruit.
Vice Dot Matrix
6.9% ABV
Freestyle Hops’ SubZero Hop Kief® is concentrated lupulin for cold side use. Their SubZero Hop Kief® is intended for dry hopping and can be added to the brite tank prior to carbonation to give a beer fresh hop character that hangs on in package or to make hop flavor/aroma adjustments to finished beer. Collaboration with Moksa Brewing for “Brews For New Avenues”, Vice Beer’s crushable Dot Matrix West Coast IPA features Freestyle Hops’ Kohia Nelson Subzero Hop Kief, Freestyle Nelson, a Citra and Mosaic Dynaboost Dip Hop, and double dry hopped with Citra and Mosaic.
No Boat Trick Candles
8.1% ABV
Freestyle Hops is still exploring the flavor and aroma spectrum of new hop varietal Peacharine. The hop can easily captivate in a single hop beer, but also pairs well with a wide range of both thiol and terpene heavy varietals, such as later harvested NZ Cascade. Peacharine hops have a rich peach/nectarine character with an appealing citrus backbone. In the background are hints of sweet fruit, lime zest and indistinct floral notes. A collaboration with Fort George Brewery, No Boat Brewing brewed their triple dry hopped Trick Candles double IPA with Peacharine, and cool kids Nelson Kief, as well as Freestyle’s Nelson Sauvin and Loza Farms’ Citra for tropical fruit punch, pineapple and citrus notes.
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