2024 Fresh Hop Winners
On behalf of Specialty Competitions LLC and the Washington Beer Guild, we are proud to announce the winners of the fourth Washington Beer Awards® Fresh Hop Competition. 165 fresh hop beers were entered in the competition by 65 Washington breweries. All of the beers submitted must have been both brewed, made commercially available in the state of Washington, and utilize fresh hops. The entries were evaluated in a blind format using the Brewers Association Style Guidelines by panels of trained beer judges who awarded Gold, Silver, and Bronze placements for each category grouping. You can download a PDF summary of results here.
Fresh Hop Lagers:
Gold: Lucky Envelope Brewing - Fresh Hop Lorien Pilsner
Silver: Stoup Brewing - Fresh Hop Fiend Citra Italian Pils
Bronze: Cloudburst Brewing - Wet Hop Keller Pils
Fresh Hop American-Style Pale Ales:
Gold: Ladd & Lass Brewing - Fresh Hop Pale Ale - Perrault Mosaic
Silver: Icicle Brewing Company - Dragontail Fresh Hop
Bronze: Single Hill Brewing Company - Six Sisters
Fresh Hop Juicy or Hazy Pale Ales:
Gold: Old Stove Brewing - Citra Hazy Pale
Silver: Icicle Brewing Company - Luminosa Fresh Hop
Bronze: Icicle Brewing Company - Alpenhaze Fresh Hop
Fresh Hop American-Style Strong Pale Ales:
Gold: Single Hill Brewing Company - Energy Cone
Silver: Old Stove Brewing - Strata WC IPA
Bronze: Reuben's Brews - Fresh Hop Crikey IPA
Fresh Hop Juicy or Hazy Strong Pale Ales:
Gold: Logan Brewing Company - So Hop Right Now
Silver: Cloudburst Brewing - Finding Wetness
Bronze: Georgetown Brewing Co - Lofty
Fresh Hop American-Style India Pale Ales:
Gold: Bale Breaker Brewing Company - Citra Slicker Fresh Hop IPA
Silver: RAVENNA BREWING - Wet Season: Strata
Bronze: Formula Brewing - Cone Shattered Dreams
Fresh Hop West Coast-Style India Pale Ales:
Gold: Vice Beer - Fresh Hop Dot Matrix
Silver: Trap Door Brewing - Fresher Than Fresh
Bronze: Grains Of Wrath Brewing - Destination Funeral IPA
Fresh Hop Juicy or Hazy India Pale Ales:
Gold: Irrelevant Beer - Indifferent Life
Silver: Hellbent Brewing - Mid Harvest Fresh Hop Hazy IPA
Bronze: Echoes Brewing Company - Galactic Haze Fresh Hop
Other Fresh Hop Ales:
Gold: Varietal Beer Company - Hyperion
Silver: RAVENNA BREWING - Wet Season: Mosaic
Bronze: Scuttlebutt Brewing Company - Home Grown Hero Kolsch