Pondering the Pint: Hopping spring opportunities

Pondering the Pint: Hopping spring opportunities

For decades, Front Range brewers have staked out annual hop harvests at Western Slope farms, sometimes chartering planes together to collect hops and return to brew the same day. Brewers also frequently collaborate with universities and private growers to develop experimental hop strains that exhibit unique qualities. Hop extracts, infusers, and bevies of special equipment have followed trends for bigger, bolder IPAs. The recently launched Broke…