Thirst-quenching: A local beer to spend some time with

Aug. 30, 2018 12:02 PM PT

Beer: Circle of Wet Hops

From: Burning Beard

Why: Late summer and early fall, freshly harvested hops are rushed to breweries to make wet hop beers. Circle is made with 100 pounds of just-plucked Cascade hops from Ramona’s Star B Ranch.

Geeking out: 5.2% alcohol by volume, 45 international bittering units.

Seeking out: Now on tap at the brewery’s tasting room in El Cajon.

Inside info: Burning Beard and Julian’s Nickel Beer are collaborating on another wet hop beer this season, Room 101, featuring Neo-Mexicanus hops.

Burning Beard, 785 Vernon Way, El Cajon, burningbeardbrewing.com

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Peter Rowe

Peter is a freelance writer who writes about beer in his bimonthly column Brewery Rowe for the San Diego Union-Tribune. He worked as a reporter and columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune from 1984 to 2020. A native Californian who grew up in Encinitas, Rowe is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Northwestern University. He is past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and a former Fulbright scholar. He has won a few journalism awards, but would trade them all for a chance to avenge his 1994 “Jeopardy!” loss. Married to a terrific woman who has saved him from errors in writing and in life, he has three sons.