After 124 years in the hops business, Crosby Hops is still innovating. What it does: Producer of hops and hop pellets Location: Woodburn Top executive: CEO Blake Crosby After 124 years in the hops ...

So with that said, how will Super Zero measure up? On the nose, this sparkling hop water is as fresh and green as I was expecting it to be, very reminiscent of a just-opened bag of hop pellets on ...

*Combine a half ounce of Galaxy hop pellets with two ounces of simple syrup, vacuum-seal, and cook at 138 degrees for half an hour. Strain out hops.

Hops grow on vines, are harvested in late summer/early fall, dried, and then shaped into small pellets. The “craft” part of brewing is partially dependent on when the hops pellets are added.

Black Raven used a pelletized fresh hop from YCH’s Frozen Fresh Hops program. The fresh hop pellets are flash frozen, preserving the flavor and aromas of the lupulin.

The goal with PHAs is to produce them so there's no difference between using hops pellets and PHAs. But today, there are some pellet flavors that can't be replicated with the oils, Perschel says.

Then breweries like Right Brain here take the pellets and brews them into beer. "We get almost every beer that we can we get local, we get local hops,” Right Brain Head Brewer Josh Thomas said.

1. Lupulin Powder Used for flavor and aroma, this yellow-green powder is three times more potent than traditional hop pellets, says John Paul Maye, technical director for Hopsteiner hops company.

“Pellets can have grassier notes,” says Mike McGarvey, the co-founder of Washington’s 3 Stars Brewing, who’s brewed several beers with Cryo Hops. “Powder is all that you like about hops ...

Washington annually produces up to 55 million pounds of hops, compared to Colorado’s 100,000 pounds. Hop fields in the Pacific Northwest yield an average 1,500 pounds per acre; whereas Colorado ...

The plant has already proved that it can make hop pellets at 110 degrees and less -- 20 or 30 degrees cooler than current methods. The lower temperatures better preserve the delicate hop oils and ...