There’s fresh hop season — and then there’s Oregon fresh hop season, the original madness made holy. Before Washington’s fields throbbed with tanker trucks and Yakima turned harvest into religion, Oregon brewers were the first to toss steaming cones straight into kettles and pray to the green gods for balance. What began as a dare 20 years ago has evolved into an art form — part alchemy, part symphony — a living conversation between farm and fermenter.
Today, Peaks & Pints tips its hat southward, to the growers and dreamers who taught us how to taste the exact second the bine is cut. This is Oregon’s gift to the canon: resin and citrus, melon and meadowlight, electricity and impermanence — gone before you can name it. A flight for the faithful, for those who measure the season not in weeks but in aroma, in trellis miles, in that shimmering hum that hangs over the valley when the fields are alive.
Peaks & Pints Oregon Only Fresh Hop Flight
Cold Fire Fresh Hop Cumulus Tropicalus
6.5% ABV | Fresh Hop Hazy IPA | Eugene, OR
Eugene’s ColdFire Brewing takes its beloved Cumulus Tropicalus and throws it straight into the stratosphere, saturating its soft, cloudlike base with fresh Citra from Lakeside Ranches. The beer gleams with mango nectar, peach fuzz, lemongrass, and citrus oil, bright as sunlight caught in glass. Beneath the haze lies a faint resin thread, grounding all that lush fruit in the whisper of morning dew. Fresh Hop Cumulus isn’t just hazy — it’s hydroelectric, that fleeting Oregon moment when summer exhales and the air itself starts to taste like hops.
Great Notion Fresh Hop Northleft (2025)
6.8% ABV | Fresh Hop Hazy IPA | Portland, OR
For its first-ever fresh hop incarnation, Great Notion drags Northleft through the fields and baptizes it in 600 pounds of living Citra. The result: a glowing, fruit-charged fog of mango pulp, tangerine zest, and piney crackle, anchored by Mosaic and Krush in the dry hop. Every sip thrums with that unmistakable “field heat,” a green vibration that feels less like drinking beer and more like plugging into the harvest itself. This isn’t just Northleft refreshed — it’s Northleft rewritten in chlorophyll and static.
Claim 52 Fresh Hop Fluffy Hazy IPA
7% ABV | Fresh Hop Hazy IPA | Eugene, OR
Claim 52 takes its cult-favorite Fluffy and sends it frolicking through the Citra fields, soaking 50 pounds of just-picked cones into that oat-smooth haze. What comes back is pure daydream — orange creamsicle, melon mist, citrus oil — bright, soft, and alive. It smells like dawn over a hop yard and drinks like something between silk and sunshine. At 7%, Fresh Hop Fluffy doesn’t shout; it radiates, glowing proof that Eugene still treats the harvest like religion.
Von Ebert Fresh Hop Sector 7 Hazy IPA
7% ABV | Fresh Hop Hazy IPA | Portland, OR
Von Ebert reroutes Sector 7 through the ionosphere, infusing it with wet Krush hops from Perrault Farms until it practically hums with green static. Pineapple and grapefruit weave through melon sweetness, all shimmering against that live-wire resin edge that only fresh hops can deliver. The result feels like a transmission intercepted midair — hazy, juicy, and otherworldly — a beer tuned perfectly to Oregon’s harvest frequency.
Gold Dot Beer Fresh Hop Chinook Classic IPA
7.2% ABV | Fresh Hop West Coast IPA | McMinnville, OR
Down in McMinnville, Gold Dot Beer proves “classic” doesn’t mean tame. Their Fresh Hop Chinook Classic hits like a harvest anthem — pine resin and citrus rind roaring over a golden malt backbone that hums with caramel light. Grapefruit zest and cedar swirl through each sip, the signature Chinook sharpness softened by field heat and Oregon sun. At 7.2%, it’s crisp yet unruly, the kind of IPA that smells like the moment someone fires up an old amp in a hop barn and lets it feedback into eternity.
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