Big news from the Brewers Association: there’s now a GABF medal category for Vera hopped beer!
Huge shoutout to Kayla Altendorf for all of her hard work!
https://www.brewersassociation.org/association-news/new-vera-hop-category-for-2025-gabf-competition/
Want more context? Learn more about the progress in Prosser on the Master Brewers Podcast - here’s a link to my conversation with Kayla.
And you can get Vera on LEx right now! It’s listed by the Hop Research Council as HRC-003.
I think with this new category the demand will spike and while there is a decent amount of 2024 crop around, it may go quick.
This is going to be a really good hop for the industry. Another stand out public hop variety that everyone should support. Had a chance to taste it at this years CBC, and it was exceptional. Along with HBC1019, one of my favorite new hops.
BTW, if you’re looking to complement Vera with some other really good public varieties, check out these listings:
The same lots of Vista and 008 were used in IPA Expedition 011, which was our CBC25 collab beer.