Wet Hopped

Hops cones are typically picked from trellises from the end of August through October (in the Northern Hemisphere) and processed for long term storage. The process for long term storage need to be accomplished quickly as the fresh picked hop cones are fairly perishable and will quickly rot. Aqua predator uses 100 pounds of crystal hops picked by our friends at Hop Head Farms in Michigan in the morning and infused in our single 20 barrel (600 gallon) batch with a make shift hopback later that afternoon.