Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., known for its allegiance to whole-cone hops and love of hop-forward beers, is highlighting the revered ingredient at its inaugural Single, Fresh, Wet & Wild Harvest Festival. On Saturday, Oct. 19, more than 50 craft breweries from across the country will fill Sierra Nevada’s hop field in Chico, Calif., to pour a selection of their beers that will include at least one of the following:
• Single hop beer: Showcases the nuances of only one hop variety;
• Fresh hop beer: Uses dried hops that are picked, shipped and added to the brew kettle within weeks of hop harvest;
• Wet hop beer: Uses un-dried hops that are picked, shipped and added to the brew kettle within days of hop harvest; and
• Wild hop beer: Ventures into the unknown with hops found untamed in nature.
Here’s a rundown of all the breweries that will be in attendance:
AleSmith Brewing Co., CA
Allagash Brewing Co., ME
Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits, CA
Beachwood BBQ, CA
Berryessa Brewing Co., CA
Boulevard Brewing Co., KS
Captain Lawrence Brewing Co., NY
Cigar City Brewing, FL
Columbus Brewing Co. Restaurant, OH
Country Boy Brewing, KY
Drakes Brewing Co., CA
Fifty Fifty Brewing Co., CA
Firestone Walker Brewing Co., CA
Founders Brewing Co., MI
Great Divide Brewing Co., CO
Green Flash Brewing Co., CA
Hair of the Dog Brewing, OR
Hopworks Urban Brewery, OR
Karl Strauss Brewing Co., CA
Kern River Brewing Co., CA
Knee Deep Brewing Co., CA
Lagunitas Brewing Co., CA
Lawson’s Finest Liquids, VT
Mammoth Brewing Co., CA
Marin Brewing Co., CA
Moylan’s Brewery & Restaurant, CA
New Belgium Brewing Co., CO
Ninkasi Brewing Co., OR
Oakshire Brewing, OR
Oskar Blues Brewing Co., CO
Port Brewing Co., CA
Redwood Curtain Brewing Co., CA
Russian River Brewing Co., CA
Societe Brewing Co., CA
Solemn Oath Brewery, IL
Stone Brewing Co., CA
Sun King Brewing, IN
SweetWater Brewing Co., GA
The Bruery, CA
The Saint Louis Brewery, MO
Trumer Pilsner Brewing Co., CA
Victory Brewing Co., PA
The festival follows on the heels of the annual fall U.S. hop harvest, a much anticipated and celebrated time for craft brewers. Single, Fresh, Wet & Wild is a joyful salute to the harvest and the brewer ingenuity it inspires. The festival also precedes the February 2014 rollout of a series of Sierra Nevada large-format bottles that will feature these very beer styles, including its established Southern Hemisphere Harvest (fresh hop) and Northern Hemisphere Harvest (wet hop).
