HOP HARVEST
HPA chart
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can reduce their ability to be nimble in the market. For Bintani, working collaboratively
Victorian craft brewery Bridge Road Brewers also has a long tradition of brewing
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with brewers to best handle their changing
wet-hopped beers to celebrate the hop
demands is something we are very proud of.”
harvest. The brewery releases two beers after
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the annual hop harvest: Harvest Fresh Hop
SPECIAL HOP HARVEST BEERS
– a hoppy pale ale – and Dark Harvest – a
While most breweries buy in all their hops,
stronger, darker, wet-hopped beer which is a
Victoria’s Red Hill Brewery grows its own
collaboration with gypsy brewer Mikkeller.
on-site. Businesses in rural zones on the
Bridge Road’s founder Ben Kraus explained
Mornington Peninsula are required to have
the differences between brewing these,
a direct link to the land, which led to owners
and traditionally hopped beers. “Brewing
Karen and David Golding deciding to grow
Harvest Fresh Hop and Dark Harvest is a
hops, which they did for four years until the
fairly different experience,” he says. “It can
brewery was commissioned in 2005. Red
only happen in a one-month window and the
Hill grows, picks and dries its own Tettnang,
flavour profile is quite different – really fresh,
Hallertau, Willamette and Goldings hops,
delicate aromas and green, leafy chlorophyll
some of which make their way into every
characters not available in dried hops. It’s
one of the brewery’s beers. One of Red Hill’s
quite different and not what you’d expect. We
seasonal releases is Hop Harvest – a strong
have to use a lot more hops by weight than
English-style bitter that is copper in colour
in a standard-hopped beer. Many brewers
with a strong malt character, balanced by
add dry hops to their hop harvest beers, but
the brewery’s new season Willamette and
Bridge Road doesn’t. It’s very expensive to
Goldings hops.
brew, but it’s good fun!”