{"id":23523,"date":"2020-03-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=23523"},"modified":"2020-03-06T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T21:52:49","slug":"yakima-chief-hops-collabs-with-local-breweries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2020\/03\/04\/yakima-chief-hops-collabs-with-local-breweries\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima Chief Hops collabs with local breweries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

San Diego\u2019s reputation for craft brewing quality stretches world-wide, including Washington\u2019s Yakima Valley. A premier hop-growing region, it is home to Yakima Chief Hops<\/a><\/strong> (YCH), a global supplier of hops and hop-based products. Recently, as part of a team-building exercise, YCH\u2019s Pacific regional sales manager, Kelly Lohrmeyer<\/strong>, invited her colleagues from around the country to convene in San Diego so she could show them, first-hand, the passion, innovation and talent driving the quality of the region\u2019s ales and lagers. For her, the best way to do that was to set up collaboration brew days with a septet of local breweries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dubbed \u201cIPA\nPop-Up,\u201d that initiative took place in February and yielded seven beers embodying\nthe tastes, methodologies and preferences of the brewers who produced them. It\nall stemmed, as one might expect, from the hops they selected. YCH made its\nentire portfolio available to participating breweries, making for an elative\nkid-in-a-candy-store scenario. Even though all but one of the breweries\nproduced IPAs, their characteristics are wildly diverse because of the hops they\nchose and the manner in which they incorporated them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n