Fresh hop beer. Fresh (or “wet”) hops go from the bine to the kettle within hours, never kilned. The figures below are for the dried hop; fresh ones carry the same oils in a greener, brighter form, and brewers use several times the weight.
What it'll taste like
What the 2 hops smell like, most shared first — from the hop growers' and breeders' own notes, not the brewery's. 1 from USA, 1 from England.
The hop bill
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Fresh hop, from Virgil Gamache Farms
Apricot, Grapefruit, Melon, Creamy, Tea
Bitterness Moderate 6.7–11% αAroma oil 1–2 mLGrown 2025: 1,158 ac Washington · 503 ac Idaho · 213 ac Oregon
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Bitterness Gentle 3–5% αAroma oil 0.4–0.8 mL
In the order Cloudburst Brewing lists them: Shredded Wettuce Wet Hop West Coast IPA | 6.6% ABV | 65 IBU WARNING: This WCIPA contains JACKED UP WET Amarillo HOPS from Virgil Gamache Farms . What does that even mean? Well, let us explain. We wanted to amplify the wet hop character in this one – so we fired up our electric leaf shredder and coarse chopped up some of the unkilned green cones, exposing a METRIC FUCKTON more lupulin to our br...
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From the brewery's page for this beer. Forms like Cryo and CO2 extract are
the same variety processed differently.
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New to hop talk? What these words mean
- Bitterness (alpha acid)
- How much bite a hop gives when it's boiled. Under 5% is gentle, 13%+ is a bruiser. It's why a West Coast IPA snaps and a pilsner doesn't.
- Aroma oil
- The smelly part of the hop — where the citrus, pine and tropical fruit come from. More oil, more punch when it's added late or dry-hopped.
- Myrcene, humulene…
- The main oils. Lots of myrcene reads fruity and resinous; humulene and caryophyllene read woody, herbal, spicy.
- Aroma / bittering / dual purpose
- What brewers mostly use the hop for: smell, bite, or both.
- Fresh (wet) hop
- Hops straight from the field into the beer, same day, never dried. Only at harvest, late August into October.
- Cryo, CGX, LupoMax, Incognito
- The same hop, processed: concentrated powder or extract, for more aroma with less vegetal taste.
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