Flowers (2025) is our first foray into the annual ritual of brewing with wet hops and a beer we see evolving with each year’s harvest and our own growth and interests as brewers. On the hot side we added 80 lbs of New York-grown whole-cone Vista hops from Crooked Creek Hops/The Hop Guild - it’s a varietal we’ve come to love and the late-picked beauties from Chris’s farm in Addison made a beautiful impression on the beer.

The dry hop is largely designed around an innovative new product from our partners Yakima Chief called “Cryo Fresh”. Making use of their expertise in cryogenic processing of concentrated hop pellets, YCH realized they could use frozen, unkilned (this is key), whole-cone hops to create a new hop pellet that locks in harvest-fresh aromatics of wet hops in a form that, as brewers, we can more effectively incorporate in our beer. Flowers (2025) was dry hopped with Cryo Fresh Krush, Simcoe and Citra all grown by Loftus Ranches in the Yakima Valley along with further additions of NY Vista and Citra.