It is safe to say that craft beer drinkers in the NW have an affinity for hops. There are quite a few hop-focused events this year, but Hopfest at Brouwer’s Cafe offers one of the bigger lineups. The event is set to kickoff tomorrow and will run through the weekend. They’ll have the large majority of their 60+ taps pouring hoppy beers for the event, and there are definitely plenty of gems on the list.
Here is a prelim list that is sure to be added to and changed by the time the doors open:
American —Imperial Ipa
Green Flash—Green Bullet
Ballast Point—Habenero Sculpin
Black Raven—Wisdom Seeker
Speakeasy — Blind Tiger Triple Ipa
Big Time—Cask Decade 2.5
Naked City—Crossfire IPA
Sound—-Humulo Nimbus
Backwoods —Triple IPA
Epic(salt lake) –Imp IPA
Reuben’s—Fresh Hop
Almanac—Fresh Hop Cascade
Almanac Fresh Hop Cluster
Bainbridge—Barrel aged IPA
Boundary Bay—Imperial IPA
Oskar Blues—Dry Hopped Deviant Dales
New Belgium—La terrior
New Belgium –Dry Hopped Ranger Firkin
Snipes/ Black Raven —Fresh hop colab
Fremont—1/2 Cowiche Canyon Fresh Hop
Elysian—something one off special
Boneyard—Notoiorous
Beer Valley—Black Madness
Amnesia—Mother Plucker (all Amarillos)
Port—Hop 15
Schooner Exact– Fresh Hop
Lagunitas—Maximus
Silver City—Whoop Pass
HUB—Ace of Spades
Firestone—Double Jack
Double Mountain—Triple Pale Ale
Flyers—Afterburner
Kulshan—Imp IPA
Fort George— Omegatex
Omnipolo –Nebakanzer
Evil Twin-Yang
Dugges –Imp IPA
Seven Seas—Hop Prophet (cascade and Citra)
pFriem—Mosaic
pFriem Experitmental
Black Diamond—Fresh Hop
Dogfish Head—90 minute
Big Al—Fresh hop
Goodlife—Fresh hop
Two Beers—Fresh Hop(centennial and Als hop)
10 Barrel—Dub or SAM
Mad River – Humbolt Haze Imp Wheat
Sierra Nevada —Hoptimum
Icicle—Boot jack IPa
Kulshan –Imp IPA
Sierra –Hoptimum
Finn River—Dry HOpped
mr. howard // Sep 27, 2013 at 10:21 pm
does the fact that hoptimum and kulshan imp ipa show up twice on the list mean they are REALLY good?