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Master Brewers PodcastEpisode 258: Sustainability of the American Hop IndustryThe popularity of heavily-hopped beer styles has put USA hops front and center, but threats are looming; wildfire, climate change, water availability, the loss of hop farming families, and the ongoing shift from public to private hops. Hop growers Darren Gamache (VGF) and John Segal (Segal Ranch), master brewer Karl Ockert, and hop consultant Eric Sannerud joined John Bryce on stage during the 2022 Brewing Summit to discuss these topics and more.Special Guests: Darren Gamache, Eric Sannerud, John Segal, and Karl Ockert.Sponsored By:Alfa Laval: Brew Ninja: Precision Fermentation: Gusmer: BSG: Proximity Malt...
2022-09-051h 23
Spreading HoppinessEpisode 02: Paul chats to Darren Gamache of Amarillo® famePaul Corbett chats to Darren Gamache of Amarillo fame. Includes the discovery of Amarillo, a lab in his great grandmother’s basement and state preference for our UK customers
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2021-03-1820 min
Radio Brews NewsBeer is a Conversation Bonus: Darren GamacheAs part of the 2019 northern hemisphere hop harvest we joined Bintani as they travelled to the US to make their final selections from the Autumn crops. We headed north from Portland, Oregon to the Yakima Valley in Washington State just after the competition of the harvest and were granted a rare insight into the wonderful world of hop breeding and development and the process by which the harvested fresh hops are assessed and then selected before being processing. Virgil Gamache Farms, more popularly known as VGF is a leading hop grower in Toppenish in the Yakima Valley...
2019-11-0539 min