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Steady, fresh, flow

Rick Bonino

If you didn’t get your fill of fresh-hop beers at Manito Tap House this week, there’s another opportunity tomorrow in the Valley.

Some 20 offerings will pour for Steady Flow Growler House’s Fresh Hop Flow Fest from 2 to 8 p.m., with happy-hour pricing all day and $5 off three-packs of 32-ounce crowler cans.

At last report, the lineup included (with more on the way):

– Backwoods Citra Fresh Hop IPA

– Double Mountain’s Killer Green (Centennial/Simcoe) and Killer Red (Perle)

– Ecliptic Altair pale (Centennial)

– Fremont’s Field to Ferment Centennial, Amarillo and Citra, plus Cowiche Canyon (organic Citra/Simcoe) 

– Georgetown’s fresh Johnny Utah pale (single-hop Citra) and Bodhizafa IPA (regular recipe with fresh Citra)

– Laughing Dog’s Hop Dog (Amarillo)

– MickDuff’s Wet Hop IPA (Amarillo)

– Paradise Creek’s Alpha Madness (Simcoe)

– Perry Street’s Amarillo Fresh Hop Pale

– River City’s Funkadelicious (Citra)

– Trickster’s BoatLoad IPA (Simcoe/Loral)

– Twelve String’s Simcoe Fresh Hop Session IPA

– Waddell’s Hop Tart sour (several homegrown varieties)

– Yakima Craft 48˚ North (Centennial/Amarillo)

So enjoy, but save some taste buds: The Lantern Tap House today announced its fifth annual Freshtival for next weekend (Oct. 13-14), with 32 fresh-hop beers pouring from Oregon on Friday and Washington/Idaho on Saturday.