Jeff Alworth is the author of The Beer Bible, Cider Made Simple, and The Secrets of Master Brewers. He has been writing about Oregon beer for over two decades for newspapers and magazines, including Sunset and All About Beer, as well as on his long-running blog, Beervana.
It begins a couple weeks after Labor Day as the summer heat begins to ebb. There’s no official start date to the season, which depends on the hop harvest. Rather, notice starts to spread by word of mouth. A sighting! The first of the fresh-hop beers come in a trickle, but soon there’s a steady flow, and then, by the first of October, a flood. More
