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

Late summer and early fall, freshly harvested hops are rushed to breweries to make wet hop beers like Burning Beard’s Circle of Wet Hops.

Aug. 30, 2018

12:02 PM

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 joined The San Diego Union-Tribune in 1984. 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. At the U-T, Rowe writes profiles and features and is even paid to review beers, which hardly seems fair.