TapRoom Beer Co. Jagged Hedge 16oz can

TapRoom Beer Co. Jagged Hedge

Another fun addition to our collection of 2024 harvest WET HOP beers!

So here’s the deal.

We love making fresh hop beers. We love the rush of energy that harvest brings – the immediacy of action. When hops are ready to pick, they wait for nobody. Within hours hops are picked and kilned and readied for baling and quality control. Along the way there are thousands of individuals working tirelessly to bring the best product to market. It is seriously impressive.

As brewers, we get to travel to the Yakima Valley and begin selecting lots of hop varietals that we believe will best fit our needs for the beers we will make that year. Amongst the grind of harvest, we make friends and new relationships happen.

This year, TapRoom was lucky enough to travel up to WA multiple times in September/October to tour facilities and select our hops. This brought us to CLS Farms in Moxee wherein we stumbled upon the most insane smelling Chinook to date, sitting fresh in the kiln, only hours after picking.

We thought – hmmm lets buy this right now and ship it to San Diego. So we did, and we made a WC IPA with wet hop Mosaic from Yakima Chief Hops & then dry-hopped with whole leaf, freshly kilned, seriously bonkers Chinook.

We <3 hops, a lot.

Hops:
Wet Hop Mosaic
Fresh Kiln Chinook

Malt:
Rahr 2-Row
Weyermann Pilsner
Acidulated Malt