Fresh hop season is still just waking up, stretching its green arms across the Pacific Northwest, and Peaks & Pints is, once again, sliding a quintet of harvest-fueled beauties across the bar. Think of this flight as the overture before the full orchestra arrives: cones cut hours ago, still sticky with oil and earth, spun into hazy fields, citrus storms, and pine-soaked detonations. The crescendo hasn’t peaked yet—that’s still coming—but you can already taste the voltage in these early pours, that unmistakable thrum of hops at their brightest and most alive. Call it the soft rumble before the lupulin storm, the crisp green spark that says fresh hop season is officially underway.
Peaks & Pints Sunday Fresh Hop Flight
Matchless Easy Being Green
5.2% ABV | Fresh Hop Hazy IPA | Tumwater, WA
Tumwater’s Matchless Brewing hauls in over half a ton of fresh Cascade from CLS Farms, then folds in Azacca and Chinook to build Easy Being Green, a hazy IPA that tastes like wandering through a meadow at sunrise. Honeydew, watermelon, and green tea float on the nose, while citrus threads of orange and grapefruit run bright through the haze. At 5.2 percent, it’s lush but nimble, grassy yet smooth—a verdant fresh hop dream that makes the harvest feel effortless, even playful.
Single Hill Oregon Shortcut Fresh Hop Pale
6.2% ABV | Fresh Hop Hazy Pale Ale | Yakima, WA
Yakima’s Single Hill opens fresh hop season with Oregon Shortcut, a hazy pale brewed on the green electricity of just-picked Strata from Coleman Agriculture. Early-harvest cones bring vivid aromatics and a resinous lift, layered with notes of melon, tropical fruit, and soft citrus, like a farmers market crammed into a pint. At 6.2 percent, it’s bright yet grounded, hazy but not heavy—a fresh hop detour that tastes like the first blaze of harvest before the season barrels into full swing.
Trap Door Pretty Satisfying Fresh Hop IPA
6.3% ABV | Fresh Hop IPA | Vancouver, WA
Vancouver’s Trap Door teams up with Living Häus and Double Elbow Beer for Pretty Satisfying, a fresh hop IPA that more than lives up to its wry name. Brewed with heaps of just-cut cones, it bursts with green brightness and floral citrus lift, a tangle of aromatics poured straight into the glass. At 6.3 percent, it’s lean and lively, pulling dank edges and grassy sweetness into sharp focus—the kind of pint that shrugs, grins, and proves harvest season can be both playful and absolutely, well, satisfying.
Trap Door Co-Hop Fresh Hop IPA
6.5% ABV | Fresh Hop West Coast IPA | Vancouver, WA
Vancouver’s Trap Door Brewing drops 750 pounds of just-picked Strata from Coleman Agriculture and Indie Hops straight into the kettle for Co-Hop Fresh Hop IPA, then layers in Mosaic for a dry-hop kick. The result is a West Coast blast—pineapple and grapefruit colliding with dank forest haze, sticky citrus oils, and that unmistakable green snap of harvest. At 6.5 percent, it’s bold, brash, and brewed to taste like fresh hop season in full electric stride.
Postdoc Fresh Hop Alpha Factor (2025)
6.8% ABV | Fresh Hop IPA | Redmond, WA
Redmond’s Postdoc Brewing takes its flagship Alpha Factor IPA and rewires it with a harvest-time jolt, swapping the whirlpool hop charge for fresh-picked Centennial from Double R Ranches. The result is a 6.8-percent IPA that thrums with citrus brightness, pine resin, and a floral-green crackle, rounded out by Amarillo, Cascade, and Simcoe for layered depth. Bitter yet buoyant at 64 IBUs, it drinks like an autumn circuit board—alive with buzzing energy, glowing with lupulin fire, built to be savored before the season slips away.
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