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.

 WABA Award


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