Hoppy Bear Farms!

Hi, CHAOS! We received the following e-mail a while ago; no one caught it before today apparently but we still get 10% off from them. See the Partners Page above to get the code.

We have excitement here at Hoppy Bear farm. We are in the midst of our growing season and the Hops and herbs are looking great. Check out our updated and revamped website www.hoppybear.com with videos of us and our farm. We’ll continue to update our plant growth with videos and keep you posted so you can follow along.

We are offering four categories of products for 2015:

1.    Fresh hops: we are offering to club partners the opportunity to pick your own hops on our farm. Life is good in the hopyard and pretty sweet in northwest Michigan. This would be a great time to check out the beer scene in the greater Grand Traverse Region. We have lots of outstanding microbreweries in the area from Frankfort to Petoskey. Along with the Sleeping Bear Dunes which Good Morning America called the most beautiful place in the U.S.A.

If unable to come to the farm we are happy to pick and ship for you. We want to be your destination for fresh hops.

2.    Dried whole cone hops: Chinooks, Centennials, Willamette, Nugget and Cascade hops. We have our hops tested at Kar Labs and will forward results to you when completed. We have our own oast and control the drying process.

3.    Bine dried whole cone hops: same varieties as above. These are left on the bine to dry naturally. The petals turning a golden brown with the yellow lupulin congealed on the inside stem. We tested bine dried hops last year after seeing a recipe in Zymurgy from Charlie Papazian about brewing the perfect IPA. Wow, the aroma, the flavor, they are really good. Check out the bine dried video at www.hoppybear.com.

4.    Ancient herbs: Yarrow, Sweet Marjoram and Lemon Balm. That’s a great tasting Gruit using those herbs. Whether you’re wanting to explore pre hop styles of ales or combining the ancient with the modern. These herbs add flavor dimensions to your beers that will keep you going back for another.

We are continuing with our club discount of 10% and our pre harvest buy in discount of 10%. Club partners can take advantage of both discounts during the pre harvest buy in for total of 20%. Buy in is from now until 8-7-15. Your club code is XXXXX and will give the 20% discount until 8-17-15 after that 10%.  

Looking forward to working with you in 2015. Please forward to your club members and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and youtube @hoppybearfarm.