If Yakima is the Vatican of hops, then Single Hill Brewing is its cathedral — stainless gleaming, doors flung open, air thick with chlorophyll and intent. Every harvest season, their downtown taproom becomes the gravitational center of the Pacific Northwest beer world: brewers shoulder to shoulder with farmers, customers casting ballots in the “Fresh Hop Rodeo,” the room alive with the scent of green gold and next year’s dreams. Founded by Zac Turner and Jack Lamb, Single Hill doesn’t just brew in Yakima — it breathes Yakima. Their fresh-hop beers are living records of the valley’s pulse: sticky, bright, green as sunrise, vibrating with energy that can’t be faked or freighted. These are hop symphonies performed in real time — the fields translated into foam.
And today, Peaks & Pints salutes that harvest choir with five pours straight from the source — proof that no one bottles the season’s voltage quite like Single Hill.
Peaks & Pints Single Hill Fresh Hop Flight
Single Hill Brewing Six Sisters Fresh Hop Pale Ale
5.6% ABV | Fresh Hop Pale Ale
🥈 Silver — 2025 Great American Beer Festival, Fresh Hop Beer (2 of 142)
Yakima’s own Single Hill doesn’t just brew fresh hop beer — they are fresh hop beer. Six Sisters is their annual love letter to the valley, named for the six neighboring hop farms that feed its creation: Perrault, Double R, CLS, Loftus, Gooding, and Morrier. Fresh-cut Citra meets Simcoe, Krush, Cashmere, and Mosaic in a kettle still pulsing with field heat, yielding grapefruit oil, green mango, and citrus blossom folded into hazy gold. It smells like harvest dust and ripe fruit colliding, tastes like the moment between day and dusk when the pickers finally crack a beer. Clean, fleeting, achingly alive — Six Sisters is Yakima in liquid form: lush, luminous, and already half gone before you realize it was perfect.
Single Hill Energy Cone 2025
6.7% ABV | Fresh Hop Hazy IPA
Born from a five-bottle-shop collaboration — Full Throttle Bottles, Bottleworks, Bridge & Tunnel, Peaks & Pints, and Walla Walla Beer Parlor — Energy Cone 2025 is the shared gospel of harvest. Simcoe, Mosaic, and Idaho 7 were plucked still warm from the bine and hurled into the kettle before they could cool. The result: radiant gold-green, humming with citrus oil, mango flash, and resin heartbeat. The sip surges electric — field heat, orchard sweetness, dust, and sunlight — before settling into calm, resinous grace. It doesn’t just taste like harvest; it is harvest, bottled collaboration, the valley’s hum made drinkable.
Single Hill Spirit Form Fresh Hop IPA
6% ABV | Fresh Hop IPA
Brewed as the season’s final hymn, Spirit Form is where the hops ascend. A collaboration with Austin’s Pinthouse Brewing, it’s an interstate séance in stainless: fresh Chinook from Roy Farms and wet Mosaic from Black Star and Van Horn blurred together by the spectral hum of HQG-4 from CLS Farms. The result is both elegy and exhale — grapefruit oil, melon flesh, and dank pine over a mineral backbone that vibrates more than it tastes. The valley’s ghost in liquid form: bright, beautiful, and already fading into memory.
Single Hill Fresh Hop Lateral A
7.1% ABV | Fresh Hop IPA
This is Lateral A with its guard down — the raw, unfiltered echo of its core. Fresh Krush from Perrault and Dolcita from Haas crash into the kettle, joined by Talus and more Dolcita laid down still wet with dew. It pours hazy gold and breathes leaf, pine, and soft malt like a field hidden in fog. The sip glides from tropical glow to crisp bitterness, the hop oils buzzing like they still remember the bine. Fresh Hop Lateral A reimagines a favorite at full harvest volume — the valley speaking through resin and light.
Single Hill Last Light Fresh Hop Black IPA
6% ABV | Fresh Hop Black IPA
As the sun dips on hop season, Last Light steps into shadow — the final hymn sung in black and green. Centennial brings citrus clarity, Simcoe adds depth, and Amarillo lifts it all over roasted malt roots. It drinks like dusk trapped in a pint: forest resin, orange peel, and a whisper of char drifting through the dark. The finish is clean, crisp, haunting — the ghost of light before night truly falls. Yakima’s nocturne moment in a glass — proof that even at last light, the valley still glows.
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