Brewing Fresh Hop Ale in Burien
Here’s a fresh pic of the last addition on fresh Amarillo hops steeping in the batch of Hop Harvest Ale we brewed in Burien today.
Two weeks ago we made a run to Wapato,WA to fetch the hops right out of the grower’s kiln. In the brew house today we managed to capture much of their fleeting aromatic goodness by adding the dried cones at the end of the boil, in the whirlpool, and in the “hop back” (pictured at left) as the wort was being transferred to the fermentor.
It will be a few weeks yet before this one hits the taps, but all you lucky patrons of EBBC will have the privilege of tasting two different fresh hop ales in October.
Don’t ya just love this time of year?!
