Blog posts tagged with 'quality'

This post explores how Idaho hop growers track dry matter, maturity, and field conditions to determine each variety’s ideal picking window. Through ongoing sampling and constant adjustments during harvest, growers and processors work together to ensure hops are picked at peak quality and delivered to brewers with the best possible aroma, oils, and consistency.

This post looks at how temperature affects hop quality and why cold-chain shipping is critical during the warm months. By tracking changes in alpha acids, beta acids, and HSI, Mill 95 and 3 Floyds Brewing demonstrate how heat impacts hop stability and what shipping options breweries can use to protect pellet quality from our cooler to yours.