I’ve got three more fresh hop lightning round reviews for you, ranging from Tumwater, Washington to back down here in Bend.

Matchless Brewing – CSA Farm Harvest Fresh Hop Ale

Matchless is located in Tumwater, and each year releases its CSA Farm Harvest pale ale, brewed with Washington-grown fresh Centennial hops. It’s 5.8% ABV and the Untappd description says:

Made exclusively with hops and malt from Washington State! Fresh Centennial hop cones from CLS Farms meet Yakima grown Centennial and Chinook hops and Skagit Valley Malting’s Fritz Ale malt. Look for big green floral notes and lemon-lime. There is nothing like that first fresh hop of the year!

It was canned on August 30, I drank it September 13. My notes:

Good color and brightness with ample head. Aroma is lighter than the previous two (both Centennial IPAs, reviewed here), with some earthiness and forest floor spice/duff. Some nice bready malt notes in the nose too. Mild in flavor, keeps up the earthy forest theme, green pine forest after a fresh rain. Good spicy bite creeps up at the back. Good, tasty, freshly spicy and herbal though mellow overall.

Little Beast Brewing – Green Keeper Fresh Hop American Pale Ale

Little Beast brews a wide variety of styles in Portland, and Green Keeper is a pale brewed with fresh Centennials. I’m not sure how many fresh hop beers will be released, though there’s at least one more on the website. For Green Keeper, the brewery says:

Green Keeper is the quintessential American Craft Beer. An American Pale Ale made with Pale and Munich malts, it’s wet hopped with fresh Centennial hops only an hour from the fields. It’s truly homegrown!

It’s 5.2% ABV, and was packaged on August 31. I also drank this September 13. Notes:

Pale yellow with good, lacy white head. Herbal-spicy aroma, fresh greens, relatively mellow but warming. Peppery. And peppery greens in the flavor too, lightly bitter with a savory spiciness and maybe even a hint of something like coriander. Really nice, quite mellow and easy drinking.

RiverBend Brewing – Millenials Hate Centennials Fresh Hop Hazy IPA

My first Bend-brewed fresh hop of the year! (Not counting my homebrew, of course.) RiverBend’s fresh hazy IPA is imbued with (obviously) Centennial hops, and yes, “Millenials” is intentionally misspelled. No main description, other than noting on Untappd it’s brewed with Crosby Farm hops.

It’s 6.8% ABV with 45 IBUs. Canned on September 2, I drank it on September 17. Notes:

Golden apricot-colored hazy, off-white creamy head. Spicy fresh leafiness, hop resin—I just picked my own hops and it’s that same fresh, spicy-sticky resin aroma, nice; but mellow and not too big. Flavor is big, all that sticky, spicy resin with a really nice savory herb/peppercorn character. Really, really good, though I don’t get any “tropical” fruit notes as mentioned on the label—it’s more earthy and savory to me, and spicy-fresh.