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If you love hops, you can’t miss the 2nd Annual Seattle Fresh Hops Festival! TWO sessions to choose from! 20+ breweries will sample just released fresh hops brews.

Once a year brewmasters descend on Yakima’s Hop Country to hand pick their favorite varieties of hops, all with varying degrees of bitterness and aromatics. And they can’t wait to brew a batch or two with what they’ve chosen! Join in the fun and experience the wide range of fresh hop style beers and see what the excitement is all about! Breweries can feature at least one fresh hopped beer and another brew of their choice! Food and sliders will be available from Hale’s.

To date registered breweries are:

20 Corners Brewing
Bad Jimmy’s Brewery
Diamond Knot Craft Brewing
Elysian Brewing Company
Flying Bike Cooperative Brewing
Fremont Brewing
Illuminati Brewing
Lazy Boy Brewing
Lowercase Brewing
Lucky Envelope Brewing
Pike Brewing Company
pFriem Family Brewers
Rogue Ales
Triplehorn Brewing Co
Wingman Brewers
Yakima Craft Brewing

The Yakima Valley of Washington State is one of the most important hop growing regions in the world. Because of the boom in the beer industry, especially craft brewing in the U.S., demand for hops is at an all-time high. And our own Yakima Valley contains approximately 75% of the total U.S. hop acreage! Approximately 2/3’s of the hops produced in the Yakima Valley are exported to countries all over the globe. Depending on the variety of hops, growers begin to harvest late August thru September.

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