Crafting consistent beer with changing hops!

Join Nate as he delves into the challenges of maintaining beer quality despite annual hop crop variations. Discover how we select specific hop lots to ensure our core beer, Green, brewed with Galaxy hops, remains consistent. Learn about our travels to hop farms since 2016 to create a perfect blend, balancing terroir and consistency, and how a decade of experience with Galaxy hops enhances our process.
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[@user-ef8zb7ix9l]

GREEN = GOAT. Let's gooooo galaxy !!

[@FermentationAdventures]

As a homebrewer, it’s no trouble to see how we miss out on repeatable ipas. Thanks for sharing! The selection and blending of selected hops is critical.

[@brewtimematters7395]

The Knowledge of Hops is Amazing. Keep up the effort, it pays off. Great Info ,Thanks.

[@treehousebrewco]

Thanks for watching, all - what do you think?

[@PhilipNeveu]

I was wondering how you maintained consistency since the variables are changing by location and growing year. Nice follow-up to the video form a few weeks ago.

[@kobrewing]

I totally agree that hops are like grapes and vary so much per location and on the yearly weather patterns. Your dedication to finding the best hops show. For example some of your beers with Simcoe exhibit all kinds of fruit flavors. The Simcoe I’ve gotten tends to be in the funky pine realm. While the hops matter process does even more. What I’m trying to say is I’m jealous of your choice hop lot selection, but understand your process matters even more. A bad brewer isn’t going to work magic with your hop selection. I’m trying to figure out how to best manage my hop selection as a home brewer. Like you say Galaxy is all over the place. I don’t want to oxidize my hops so I find myself in a position of opening a new pound of Galaxy form Yakima Valley right before I brew and then try to blend it with other hops I have vacuumed sealed that I’m already accustomed to. Do you have any advice to share on finding great hops on the home-brew level? Maybe I should look towards small farms? Thanks for putting out the great content.

[@scottdorman9967]

Great information, thanks for sharing.

[@mmp126]

With the variability and lack of control a homebrewer has with their hop selection, how can a homebrewer guarantee that a hoppy beer they create is going to be on par with top tier hoppy beer like are made at Treehouse?

[@rob409BOI]

RIP Greg's beer reviews.. he loved him some Tree House

[@christopheroshlo1968]

I love the attention to detail and the determined process that you guys take into each step of brewing beer.

[@treehousebrewco]

🙏🏼

[@SuzPilet]

Thanks for the video. It really shows how much work and attention to the finest details you put into your brew recipes.

[@treehousebrewco]

Our pleasure!

[@johnnyappleseed9568]

Dudes handing out master classes like they are business cards

[@jaredleclaire9842]

Wow very informative and directly answers the question I asked on that last galaxy many ways video! Thanks Nate.

[@treehousebrewco]

😁

[@ericmoore9735]

Hell yeah I was the one who asked how you did this for Galaxy in Green and this video is such a good answer, thank you!

[@squatchybrewdude5281]

I so need to get back up there🍻Your channel makes me drool a lot😂🍻

[@felipesparks5267]

As a homebrewer, I’ll just tell my wife that I need to fly to Australia and NZ for important hop selection. I’m sure it’ll go over well. 😂

[@treehousebrewco]

it is a critical step. essential, even

[@petegow663]

Fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing. I was actually wondering this exact question this past weekend as we did our second round of the Galaxy Many Ways comparison.

[@treehousebrewco]

Glad it was helpful!

[@beerbarnbrewing9160]

Holy cow! Impressive amount of work and skill goes into this!

[@treehousebrewco]

thank you - a fair amount more than this video conveys

[@JPch108]

muito bomm,,, obrigado .. Portugal

[@briancampbell119]

Keeping the business of artistry on point. Express!

[@Jimibean375]

I'm always learning something when I watch these vids. Galaxy hops is truly the best! Team Green 💚

[@paulff3]

Evening Nate!

[@Potluck_Brewing]

For us homebrewers, we're at the mercy of what Galaxy is leftover after breweries make their selections. Galaxy in 2015-2017 was amazing. It was a cheat code for any hazy ipa to make it a tropical fruit explosion. Since then, Galaxy has been awful. The hop I fell in love with back in 2015, isn't even close now. It's really sad and I can only imagine what homebrews would be like if they could get their hands on the hand selected Galaxy top breweries can get. #bringbacktherealgalaxy

[@fergalconnon3133]

And us homebrewers are left with the scraps! Do you look for really good qualities in hops or do you try to avoid the bad? Is there any smells that us homebrewers should be looking out for to avoid in general? Love the content.

[@kevinmorris6984]

That’s exactly what I want to know!

[@treehousebrewco]

great question and my experience is more art than science - a product of the grind vs. formal education. notes of wood, cedar, cheesy, musty, sweaty, cocky. we are lucky that we almost never have to contend with 'bad'. this isn't a privilege of being a craft brewer necessarily, it's a function of years of travel and relationship building that have helped us to build a network of folks we trust. so when we work on the selection table it's seeking out unicorns among thoroughbreds. there is enough learned here to make hours of video and it would be hard to encompass in a comment. just because it smells great doesn't mean it makes the best beer

[@stephenmaher1029]

I could be wrong but I’ve tasted the same beer at many different places and times that definitely tasted different in different places/times. Great video!👍

[@treehousebrewco]

interesting - our beer?

[@stephenmaher1029]

@@treehousebrewco not your beer I haven’t found your beer yet in Louisiana

[@tcr94]

Evening Nate😊

[@ts6141]

I am slowly working through my cans I bought when I visited at the beginning of May, and I'm thankful for my bank account I live 6ish hrs away lol I have not hated a single can I've had yet! Well done Nate and team!

[@treehousebrewco]

that's awesome - hopefully the streak continues!

[@cjsutoob]

Is the end game having a Treehouse level brewer producing their own hops on their own farms, like wineries do for grapes? Or is the hop growing & selection left to outsourcing year over year with the selection process being the difference maker? Ultimately I think I know the answer is the best breweries will grow & control their own hops, but how many years out is that for the breweries that will set the bar?

[@JPch108]

send me a beer.. portugal

[@sudaratnildum4857]

Hi Nate thanks for sharing your insights. It's interesting you picked Galaxy for the video. It's probably one of the most divisive hops around. How would you describe the evolution of Galaxy say 10 years ago versus now? Lot of people think Galaxy hops where much better in the past and tbh when I first drank Green I also experienced it much different then how it is presenting now. A recent tasting of Green tasted much more earthy and dank with a sharper kind of grassy note then the Green I've had before. Thank you and happy brewing.

[@treehousebrewco]

the supposed devolution of Galaxy is not something we have experienced at Tree House. like any hop there is yearly fluctuation but it is not dramatic. Green isn't a great example as a pure Galaxy focus since it is a blend - I am sorry you had that experience with Green as it is not something we have experienced in quality control. The citrus character has always had an earthy component and ripe pineapple is the unifying constant. Galaxy Many Ways Tasmania, brewed with 2023 Galaxy, is arguably the best expression of Galaxy we've ever used and we've been using it since 2010.

[@sudaratnildum4857]

Hi Nate, thanks for replying, no need to apologize it was still an excellent brew! I believe our pallets shift by time (for better or worse) and it is nice to get a confirmation on this, it must have been what I've experienced. Cheers

[@reidmcintire7348]

You’re going above and beyond to deliver a consistently unique product to your consumers. I’m curious: is there a point at which you think there are diminishing returns when it comes to hop selection? Do you think the average taster be able to actually pick up on these minute hop profile changes from year-to-year? Or is it worth more than that? It seems to be really difficult to balance art with business.

[@treehousebrewco]

this is a great question and the answer is no there is not diminishing returns. sometimes the difference between standing out and blending in is 1% over a long period of time, and that's why we work so hard

[@reidmcintire7348]

@@treehousebrewco that’s a perfect response. Thank you for setting the standard! Very excited to make it up to your campus one day.

[@anthonyscalese5455]

Next giveaway... expenses paid trip to sit in on a yearly hop selection! Maybe I could come for coming up with the idea! Lol ... Would be so cool to see that process with a Top Tier Hop Mind like Nate or a Kimmich from the Alchemist! Id probably pay may own way to do this lol.! Would be So Cool! 🍻

[@treehousebrewco]

I would love to but the actual function of hop selection is a high stress time and we are super locked in

[@anthonyscalese5455]

@@treehousebrewco I promise you won't even know I'm there! Lol.. I totally get it, gotta be a huge few days or however long it is! But would be cool... Lol.. funny sitting here splitting a Younger with my girlfriend and just told her there is only one higher rated IPA! King Jjjulius! I've had that many times lol .. coming up to the farm and Charlton on Friday! First time for her... can't wait . Cheers! 🍻

[@treehousebrewco]

awesome- see you here!

[@anthonyscalese5455]

@@treehousebrewco 🍻!

[@kevinmorris6984]

Great video! To put this into a personal perspective as a homebrewer using local shops for ingredients, do you think there exists some safe/reliable stateside hops that homebrewers can utilize for relatively more consistent results batch to batch compared to something like galaxy?

[@treehousebrewco]

I wish I could help but I don't really know what home brewers use these days or what access looks like. sometimes the less sexy hops are better - cascade, centennial, etc

[@kevinmorris6984]

@@treehousebrewco even that is helpful!

[@jizzaymz]

Please do a Weissbier review/test. My favorite is Paulaner Weissbier, so please include it if you do.

[@treehousebrewco]

noted!

[@jizzaymz]

​@treehousebrewco that'd be great. Have an awesome weekend bro

[@robertbrown7311]

When are you going to host Craft Beer and Brewing Brewers Retreat?

[@treehousebrewco]

I've been asked to attend a few times now but have not been able to make the time commitment - perhaps someday

[@itszachdude909]

I like videos like these, even if someone knew what hops you use in the recipes nobody will be able to replicate them!

[@treehousebrewco]

that is mostly true.

[@jameszoller5658]

Is that a Rolex Datejust on your wrist?

[@aaronmonier9652]

🇳🇿 In Perpetuity > Green 🇦🇺

[@gfbmusic]

Impossible to make consistently. Hops dont care about money, success and recognition.

[@treehousebrewco]

I don't know if I understand your comment?