A three-day celebration of fresh hop beer crescendos with a fresh hop beer festival on Saturday

Thursday, October 9th, 3-11 p.m.
Friday, October 10th, 3-11 p.m.
Saturday, October 11th, noon-11 p.m.
Beveridge Place Pub. 6413 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136
21+ only

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Fresh Hop Beer Celebration at Beveridge Place Pub, October 9th through 11th
Beveridge Place Pub and Washington Beer Blog team up to celebrate the hop-harvest season

The Beveridge Place Pub and Washington Beer Blog, two of Seattle’s revered beer institutions, team up for a three-day celebration of fresh hop beers on October 9th through 11th. The celebration culminates on Saturday, October 11th, with the BPP-WBB Fresh Hop Beer Festival, featuring up to 40 fresh hop beers served festival-style. Fresh hop beers, also called wet hop beers, use the hops within hours of the harvest, so it is a style of beer reserved for this time of year, when farmers are bringing in the annual hop crop.

On Thursday and Friday, Beveridge Place Pub serves fresh hop beers from 24 taps. Guests can order beers by the pint or create their own taster trays, which offer smaller pours of multiple beers for side-by-side tasting.

On Saturday, the pub and its beer garden transform into a festival grounds, with upwards of 40 fresh hop beers on tap. Guests purchase taster tokens and sample beers using a four-ounce, commemorative tasting glass. DJ ABV provides live entertainment in the beer garden, spinning tunes from 2 to 6 p.m.

“At this time of year, beer lovers are on the hunt for fresh hop beers,” said Gary Sink, publican at Beveridge Place Pub. “We want to provide one place, one event, where beer lovers can sample a wide variety of some of the best fresh hop beers around. We are sourcing beer from some of our favorite breweries, including those that have won awards or demonstrated exceptional skill at brewing this kind of beer.”

“Fresh hop beer is a big deal here in the Pacific Northwest, where our farmers grow virtually all of the nation’s annual hop crop,” said Kendall Jones, founder of the Washington Beer Blog. “This style of beer uses the hops within hours of harvest, so brewers around here enjoy an advantage. A brewer in Seattle can drive to the Yakima Valley, load a van with freshly picked hops, drive back to the brewery, and immediately make the beer. Securing freshly harvested hops is more difficult for brewers in other parts of the country.”

Beers brewed using freshly harvested hops often exhibit floral, aromatic, sticky, green, herbal, grassy, delicate, or bright characteristics. Depending on the techniques and hop varieties the brewer employs, there is much room for variation. One thing they all have in common is that their character is fleeting; fresh hop beers are best enjoyed when they’re fresh. The harvest season runs from late August through early October, so the fresh hop beer season lasts from mid-September through November.

The Pacific Northwest is one of the world’s most prolific hop-growing regions. Farmers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho produce virtually all of the USA’s annual hop crop. Each year, farmers in the Yakima Valley provide about 70 percent of the USA’s crop and about 25 percent of the world’s hop crop. The Pacific Northwest is also home to over 800 craft breweries, many producing one or more fresh hop beers each year.

Three Days of Fresh Hop Beers

A three-day celebration of fresh hop beer crescendos with a fresh hop beer festival on Saturday

Thursday, October 9th, 3-11 p.m.

Friday, October 10th, 3-11 p.m.

Saturday, October 11th, noon-11 p.m.

Beveridge Place Pub. 6413 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136

21+ only

Beveridge Place Pub is located in West Seattle. It strives to offer guests the best beverage selection possible in a comfortable, lively setting. The pub features three unique atmospheres for your enjoyment: a front room, with vintage décor, couches, and board games; a game room with darts, shuffleboard, foosball, and satellite TVs; and the Beverage Garden, which is a relaxing outdoor seating area surrounded by lush greenery. All areas are 21+ only. beveridgeplacepub.com.

The Seattle-based Washington Beer Blog is a trusted source for beer-related news and information. Founded in 2008, it is one of the longest-running beer-focused news outlets in the nation. Since its founding, the blog has published more than 7,000 stories, mostly involving beer news, beer events, and other beer-related topics. washingtonbeerblog.com

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